Orthotropic Viscoelastic Modeling of Polymeric Battery Separator

Shutian Yan, Jie Deng, Chulheung Bae, Sergiy Kalnaus, Xinran Xiao

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Abstract

The separator is one of the most important components for battery safety since its failure can cause short-circuit that may lead to thermal runaway. As such, understanding the mechanical behaviors of separators is critical to improve battery safety. Nevertheless, modeling the mechanical behaviors of separators is challenging since they usually depend on multiple factors such as orientation, temperature and strain rate due to the microstructure of separators. Here we develop an orthotropic linear viscoelastic model for separators, which takes both anisotropy and strain rate effects into account. This model is the first step of a future model that considers more factors such as temperature and large deformation. The model has been implemented as a user material model in a finite element package, where a discretization algorithm is developed to evaluate the stiffness-based hereditary integral with a kernel of Prony series. The user model has been applied to a polypropylene (PP) separator Celgard® 2400. The simulation results agree well with experimental data, which include the rate dependent uniaxial tensile behavior of the separator in the two in-plane material directions and in shear, and the strain contour patterns of every strain component during biaxial tension.

Original languageEnglish
Article number090530
JournalJournal of the Electrochemical Society
Volume167
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 7 2020

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