Magnesium alloys have attracted a great deal of attention as structural materials for automotive applications, due to their low density, high specific strength and high specific stiffness. However, poor formability, due to a strong crystallographic texture in Mg alloy sheet, is a major issue. In this thesis, alloys have been designed to form precipitates during hot compression at the industrial hot rolled temperatures, since this might influence dynamic recrystallization and texture. Based on thermodynamic calculations, two micro-alloyed Mg alloys, Mg-0.3Al-0.2Ca (AX0302) and Mg-0.1Al-0.5Ca (AX0105), were designed such that the equilibrium precipitation (Al2Ca and Mg2Ca, respectively) temperatures are in the hot rolling range (300 °C to ...