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Copyright ©JCPDS-International Centre for Diffraction Data 2009 ISSN 1097-0002 397 IN-SITU STUDY OF THE CYCLIC DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR OF THE MAGNESIUM BASE WROUGHT ALLOY AZ31 BY MEANS OF HIGH ENERGY SYNCHROTRON DIFFRACTION 1* 2 2 Jens Gibmeier , Martin Götting and Berthold Scholtes 1 University of Karlsruhe, Inst. of Mat. Sci. and Eng. I, 76128 Karlsruhe (Germany) 2 University of Kassel, Inst. of Mat. Eng., 34125 Kassel (Germany) ABSTRACT With regard to the processing of structural lightweight components there exists an increasing demand for the application of magnesium base wrought alloys, which are highly textured due to the forming process. However, magnesium has a poor deformability at room temperature due to the hexagonal structure that limits its application considerably. Although the focus of recent research activities is on investigations of the texture evolution and the mechanical behaviour of magnesium base alloys during processing and in service, there still exists a lack of understanding of their mechanical-technological characteristics e.g. the knowledge about the deformability or the cyclic deformation behaviour with respect to the initial crystallographic texture. The deformation behaviour during cyclic loading of the highly textured hot rolled magnesium base wrought alloy AZ31 was investigated in-situ during elasto-plastic 4-point-bending using energy dispersive diffraction. Loading or residual stress distributions were determined for one load cycle including loading, load release and load reversion. The experiments were carried out at the energy dis