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A Model for State-of-Health, Swelling and Out-of-Plane Stress Evolution in Lithium-Ion Batteries
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Engineering Mechanics, Material and Structural Mechanics.ORCID iD: 0009-0009-3502-3134
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Engineering Mechanics, Material and Structural Mechanics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0307-8917
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Engineering Mechanics, Material and Structural Mechanics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3611-2250
2026 (English)In: Batteries, E-ISSN 2313-0105, Vol. 12, no 3, article id 81Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Module- and pack-level mechanical design of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles is a primary driver of swelling-induced stack pressure and spatially varying ageing. Current practice remains largely empirical or data-driven and configuration-specific, limiting the ability to predict how design changes translate into local pressure heterogeneity and state-of-health (SOH) loss. This motivates a compact chemo-mechanical model that maps packaging boundary conditions to pressure, swelling, and SOH evolution with few interpretable parameters. This study introduces finite-element-ready constitutive laws that couple reversible and irreversible swelling to SOH and through-thickness pressure, covering three boundary cases reported in literature: constant pressure, thickness clamp after an initial preload, and flexible support. Parameters are identified from different published datasets, and the model is validated against independent constraint scenarios. Good quantitative agreement is shown with averaged RMSE of 1.16% for SOH and 0.16 [MPa] for pressure evolution. Variance-based sensitivity analysis shows SOH uncertainty dominated by the damage-law parameters of the proposed constitutive relationship, whereas pressure evolution is primarily controlled by irreversible swelling and the non-linear through-thickness stiffness, indicating calibration priorities for engineering design studies. The framework is intended for fast comparative analyses of individual cells under a controlled environment. Further extensions, including SOC-dependent mechanics, refined hysteresis, temperature, and C-rate variations require dedicated datasets and are left for future work.

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MDPI AG , 2026. Vol. 12, no 3, article id 81
Keywords [en]
bracing, constitutive modelling, irreversible swelling, lithium-ion batteries, pack design, pouch cells, reversible swelling, stack pressure, state-of-health, stiffness
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-379279DOI: 10.3390/batteries12030081ISI: 001725734300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105034268061OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-379279DiVA, id: diva2:2053694
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Available from: 2026-04-17 Created: 2026-04-17 Last updated: 2026-04-17Bibliographically approved

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