Abstract
Electrochemical and thermal models to simulate nominal performance and abuse response of lithium-ion cells and batteries have been reported widely in the literature. Studies on mechanical failure of cell components and how such events interact with the electrochemical and thermal response are relatively less common. This chapter outlines a framework developed under the Computer Aided Engineering for Batteries program to couple failure modes resulting from external mechanical loading to the onset and propagation of electrochemical and thermal events that follow. Starting with a scalable approach to implement failure criteria based on thermal, mechanical, and electrochemical thresholds, we highlight the practical importance of these models using case studies at the cell and module level. The chapter also highlights a few gaps in our understanding of the comprehensive response of batteries subjected to mechanical crash events, the stochastic nature of some of these failure events, and our approach to build safety maps that help improve robustness of battery design by capturing the sensitivity of some key design parameters to heat generation rates under different mitigation strategies.
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This study was supported by Computer Aided Engineering for Batteries (CAEBAT) project of the Vehicle Technologies Office, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy under contact number WBS1.1.2.406. The research was performed using computational resources sponsored by the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, located at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Contributions made from current and previous members of the Electrochemical Energy Storage Group at NREL are acknowledged.
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Kim, J., Mallarapu, A., Santhanagopalan, S. (2023). Abuse Response of Batteries Subjected to Mechanical Impact. In: Santhanagopalan, S. (eds) Computer Aided Engineering of Batteries. Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry, vol 62. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17607-4_6
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