Study on Thermomechanical Behavior and Extraction of Arrhenius Model and Processing Map for Al-7.5Mg Sheets

Introduction and Objectives: Determining the constitutive equations which describe the material flow stress, microstructural investigation, and preparing a processing map are essential for designing and optimizing metals forming. The aim of this paper is to obtain a relationship between stress, strain, temperature, and strain rate for Al-7.5Mg alloy in order to use it in the forming process.Materials and Methods: In this study, stress-strain diagrams at four temperatures and three strain rates and friction elimination using experimental and computational methods were used. The activation energy value of hot deformation was calculated in the Arrhenius model. A processing map at strain 0.6 was drawn to establish the relationship between stress, temperature, and strain rate, and the instability region at a specific temperature and strain rate was determined. The metallography examination was performed to study the microstructure of the alloy.Results: In the Arrhenius model, the activation energy value of hot deformation increased with increasing strain. As the temperature decreased and the strain rate increased, the Zener-Hollomon parameter also increased. The instability region increased with increasing temperature and decreasing strain rate. The metallography test results showed that dynamic recrystallization occurred due to the high magnesium content in this alloy.Conclusion: In this paper, the Arrhenius model (as a phenomenological model) was correctly extracted using a hot plane strain test on an extruded plate of Al-7.5Mg alloy, and a relationship between stress, temperature, strain, and strain rate was obtained using the constitutive equations and the Arrhenius model.