**5. Conclusion**

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shear bands only, and (c) pole figures of the whole region.

whole region.

(a) (b)

(c)

**Figure 19.** Inverse pole figure maps of warm-rolled AZ31B sheets obtained by means of EBSD measurements. The grain identification angle (GID) is 15 ◦ with black lines. The step size is 0.5 µm. (a) inverse pole figure map, (b) pole figures of the

was then remeasured using EBSD (Fig. 20). Marked scratch lines were used for the ex-situ mapping. Although the overall region still revealed a basal texture after annealing, a much wider distribution in the basal texture was observed after annealing, as shown in Fig. 20(b),

(a) (b)

**Figure 20.** Inverse pole figure masp of warm-rolled AZ31B sheets obtained by means of EBSD measurements. The grain identification angle (GID) is 15 ◦ with black lines. The step size is 0.5 µm. (a) inverse pole figure map, and (b) pole figures of the

due to the off-basal orientations in the recrystallized shear band region.

The textural and microstructural evolution of wrought magnesium alloys of AZ31B, ZK60 and AM31 was investigated during deformation and recrystallization.

