In-situ investigation of the evolution of microstructure and texture during load reversal of Commercially pure titanium using Synchrotron X-ray diffraction MV Krishna 1 , Vivek Kumar Sahu 1 , Atasi Ghosh 1,* , Heinz-Guenter Brokmeier 2,3 , Nilesh Prakash Gurao 1 1 Department of Material Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur 2 Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology Agricolastrasse 6, D-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany 3 Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht Max Planck Straße 1, D- 21502 Geesthacht, Germany *Corresponding author: Atasi Ghosh, INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, Department of Material Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, Kalyanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh-208016, India. Email: atasig@gmail.com Understanding of the deformation micro-mechanism as a function of grain orientation during cyclic loading is of significant importance to have failure safe design of structural components made of commercially pure titanium (CP-Ti). The evolution of deformation microstructure and texture of commercially pure titanium samples with prismatic-pyramidal (orientation A) and near basal (orientation B) as initial texture along the loading direction has been investigated during load reversal at ±8% and ±12% strain using in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction. The synchrotron X-ray diffraction results have been further complemented with Elastic-Plastic Self- Consistent (EPSC) simulation of the texture data and ex-situ Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) scan taken at the same region. Orientation A showed partially reversible texture whereas . Phone:+91-7080213528 (mobile). Abstract