The present study investigates the deformation and recrystallization behavior of an Mg-0.41Dy (wt. %) alloy processed by plane strain compression (PSC) at room temperature (RT), 200 and 400 °C under strain rate of 10 -4 s -1 . PSC at RT and 200 °C cause the introduction of a high amount of deformation features like extension, contraction and double twins.Meanwhile, PSC at 400 °C is characterized by the occurrence of dynamic recrystallization.The changing in the microstructures affects the mechanical response of the alloy. The deformation texture was characterized by the formation of basal <0001> and prismatic <101 ̅ 0> fiber. The texture intensity increases with increasing deformation temperature. The static recrystallization kinetics was investigated for all processed samples after subsequent annealing at 450 °C for a period time ranging from 30 min to 7 days. The evolution of grains size and microhardness depends strongly on the deformation temperatures. The recrystallization rate increases with increasing deformation temperature. The Avrami exponent of recrystallization n was in the range of 0.9-0.26 indicating that the recrystallization preferentially occurs along grain boundaries and within deformation features.

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