Texture transformation in an extruded magnesium alloy under pressure

Extruded AM30 magnesium alloy showed two types of initial basal textures {0001}〈21̄1̄0〉 and {0001}〈101̄0〉. Compressive deformation along extrusion direction resulted in their vanishing and the formation of {1̄21̄0}〈0001〉 and {011̄0}〈0001〉 textures, indicating that the c-axes always rotated towards the anti-compression direction due to extension twinning.