The thermal deformation behaviour of Mg-9Gd-4Y-2Zn-0.5Zr alloy at temperatures of 360–480 °C, strain rates of 0.001–1 s⁻¹ and a maximum deformation degree of 60% was investigated in uniaxial hot compression experiments on a Gleeble 3800 thermomechanical simulator. A constitutive equation suitable for plastic deformation was constructed from the Arrhenius equation. The experimental results indicate that due to work hardening, the flow stress of the alloy rapidly reached peak stress with increased strain in the initial deformation stage and then began to decrease and stabilize, indicating that the deformation behaviour of the alloy conformed to steady-state rheological characteristics. The average deformation activation energy of this alloy was Q = 223.334 kJ·mol⁻¹. Moreover, a processing map based on material dynamic modelling was established, and the law describing the influence of the machining parameters on deformation was obtained. The experimental results indicate that the effects of deformation temperature, strain rate and strain magnitude on the peak dissipation efficiency factor and instability range were highly significant. With the increase in the strain variable, the flow instability range increased gradually, but the coefficient of the peak power dissipation rate decreased gradually. The optimum deformation temperature and strain rate of this alloy during hot working were 400–480 °C and 0.001–0.01 s⁻¹, respectively.

In order to meet the design requirements of lightweight artillery and adopt the method of double-glow plasma nitriding to solve the problem of low hardness and poor abrasion resistance of Ti alloy, the BTi-62421S high-performance titanium (Ti) alloy was selected as the experimental material to replace gun steel. To study the effect of different nitrogen (N) concentrations on the heat resistance scouring performance of BTi-62421S high-performance Ti alloy and investigate the influence of alloying elements on the heat resistance scouring performance under the same parameters compared with the commonly used TC4 Ti alloy, argon was used as the protective gas by continuously increasing the N concentration (Ar/N₂ = 1:1, 1:2, 1:3). It was found that the honeycomb structure on the surface of the sample and the thickness of the coating increased continuously, reaching a thickness of 15 μm, while the depth of the nitride particles extending from the coating to the substrate also increased, reaching a maximum depth of 26 μm. The orientation of TiN changed from 37° to 62°. The hardness of the coating showed a negative correlation with the coefficient of frictional abrasion, which significantly improved the heat-resistant scouring performance of BTi-62421S high-performance Ti alloy.