Hot Deformation Behavior and Processing Maps of 6082-T6 Aluminum Alloy Based on Friction and Temperature Correction

In the current manuscript, the hot deformation behavior and the thermal processing map of 6082-T6 rolled aluminum alloy sheet were studied. A series of compression tests were conducted using the Gleeble-3500 thermal simulation machine under the conditions of 200–350 °C and 0.001–1 s−1. In order to tackle the stress errors caused by friction and plastic deformation temperature rise, the friction correction model and the adiabatic temperature rise interpolation method were used, respectively, to correct the flow stress curve. Based on the corrected data, a strain-compensated Arrhenius constitutive equation was constructed. Through the 4th-order polynomial fitting of material parameters and strain, the measured and predicted stresses were compared, with the average relative error reaching 10.50%. The thermal processing map was drawn based on the dynamic material model, and the material instability region was concentrated in the low-temperature high-strain rate zone. Within the investigated temperature and strain rate range, the optimal processing window was 320–350 °C and 0.001–0.031 s−1. Combined with microscopic characterization by Optical microscope and transmission electron microscope, it was found that deformation at low temperature and high strain rate was mainly dynamic recovery, and dynamic recrystallization could fully occur at high-temperature low-strain rate. The research results can provide theoretical support for the optimization of the hot forging and hot stamping processes of this alloy.