Abstract:The stress corrosion cracking properties and microstructure of 6082 aluminum alloy weld joint and base metal are investigated by slow strain rate tensile test ,electron microscope scanning ,optical mi-croscopic structure inspection and dynamic potential scanning ,etc .It was found that the base material showed a slightly higher SCC sensitivity than that of the welded joint of 6082 aluminum alloy in NaCl solu-tion with a concentration of 3 .5, at the slow strain rate of 3 .3 × 10-6 s-1 ;both the weld joint and the base material demostrated excellent stress corrosion resistance with similar ductile fracture morphology either in air or NaCl solution with a concentration of 3 .5, ;the self-corrosion potential of weld joint is a little lower than that of base material and the grains of weld joint obviously grow coarse in heat affected zone by com-parison with base material ,indicating the base material is better than the weld joint in SCC resistance .