Representative-Sandwich Model for Mechanical-Crush and Short-Circuit Simulation of Lithium-ion Batteries: NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

Chao Zhang, Shriram Santhanagopalan, Michael Sprague, Ahmad Pesaran

Research output: NRELPresentation

Abstract

Lithium-ion batteries are currently the state-of-the-art power sources for a variety of applications, from consumer electronic devices to electric-drive vehicles (EDVs). Being an energized component, failure of the battery is an essential concern, which can result in rupture, smoke, fire, or venting. The failure of Lithium-ion batteries can be due to a number of external abusive conditions (impact/crush, overcharge, thermal ramp, etc.) or internal conditions (internal short circuits, excessive heating due to resistance build-up, etc.), of which the mechanical-abuse-induced short circuit is a very practical problem. In order to better understand the behavior of Lithium-ion batteries under mechanical abuse, a coupled modeling methodology encompassing the mechanical, thermal and electrical response has been developed for predicting short circuit under external crush.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages23
StatePublished - 2015

Publication series

NamePresented at the 13th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, 26-30 July 2015, San Diego, California

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/PR-2C00-64824

Keywords

  • Lithium-ion battery
  • mechanical crush
  • multi-physics simulation
  • representative sandwich model
  • short circuit

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