A phase-field model for chemo-mechanical induced fracture in lithium-ion battery electrode particles

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2016-06-01

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MIEHE, C.
Dal, Hüsnü
SCHAENZEL, L. -M.
RAINA, A.

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Capacity fade in conventional Li-ion battery systems due to chemo-mechanical degradation during charge-discharge cycles is the bottleneck in high-performance battery design. Stresses generated by diffusion-mechanical coupling in Li-ion intercalation and deintercalation cycles, accompanied by swelling and shrinking at finite strains, cause micro-cracks, which finally disturb the electrical conductivity and isolate the electrode particles. This leads to battery capacity fade. As a first attempt towards a reliable description of this complex phenomenon, we propose a novel finite strain theory for chemo-elasticity coupled with phase-field modeling of fracture, which regularizes a sharp crack topology. We apply a rigorous geometric approach to the diffusive crack modeling based on the introduction of a global evolution equation of regularized crack surface, governed by the crack phase field. The irreversible evolution of the crack phase field is modeled through a novel critical stress-based growth function. A modular concept is outlined for linking of the diffusive crack modeling to the complex chemo-elastic material response of the bulk material. Here, we incorporate standard as well as gradient-extended Cahn-Hilliard-type diffusion for the Li-ions, where the latter accounts for a possible phase segregation. From the viewpoint of the methodology, the separation of modules for the crack evolution and the bulk response provides a highly attractive and transparent structure of the multi-physics problem. This structure is exploited on the numerical side by constructing a robust finite element method, based on an algorithmic decoupling of updates for the crack phase field and the state variables of the chemo-mechanical bulk response. We demonstrate the performance of the proposed coupled multi-field formulation by an analysis of representative boundary value problems. Copyright (c) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Subject Keywords

Fracture, Phase-field modeling, Chemo-mechanics, Swelling, Finite strains, Li-Ion batteries

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35014

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING

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https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.5133

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Article

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C. MIEHE, H. Dal, L.-M. SCHAENZEL, and A. RAINA, “A phase-field model for chemo-mechanical induced fracture in lithium-ion battery electrode particles,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, pp. 683–711, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35014.