TOP CAUSES OF LITHIUM ION BATTERY FIELD FAILURES

Reliability Chapter

You want to be proactive about the safety of your battery-powered product. Is qualifying your battery manufacturer to industry standards enough? The answer is that most compliance-based testing is related to abuse tolerance, but the vast majority of battery field failures happen under normal operating conditions. Compliance based testing is necessary but not sufficient to ensure lithium ion battery safety and reliability.

In this presentation Dr. Vidyu Challa discusses broad categories of lithium ion battery field failures using industry data from 2005 onwards, whether abuse tests are relevant to field failures, and major areas where risk mitigation strategies should be implemented. She discusses manufacturing defects, abuse tolerance, adequacy of battery protection systems, end product battery application integration tolerance and battery usage conditions and how they contribute to failures.

Meeting Location: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 3 Forbes Road, Lexington, Massachusetts

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Vidyu Challa, PhD of ANSYS – DfR Solutions

Biography: Vidyu Challa, PhD, Consulting Manager, Ansys-DfR Solutions

Vidyu Challa is currently Consulting Manager at Ansys-DfR Solutions. Dr. Challa helps develop battery supplier qualification programs for companies in different industry verticals such as consumer, medical, aerospace, and industrial segments. She works on a range of battery challenges including supplier qualification, battery risk mitigation, root cause analysis, design reviews, and manufacturing audits. Dr. Challa teaches battery workshops at several industry conferences and Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Challa has published her work in journals, gives invited talks at conferences and frequently writes blog articles. She most recently published a book chapter on battery failure analysis in McGraw Hill’s Handbook of Batteries.

Agenda:

5:30PM Networking
5:45PM Light dinner – pizza, salad and beverages
6:00PM Opening and Announcements
6:20PM Technical Presentation and Q&A
7:30PM Adjournment

The meeting is open to all. You do not need to belong to the IEEE to attend this event; however, we welcome your consideration of IEEE membership as a career enhancing technical affiliation.

Free pizza, salad, desserts, and beverages will be available.

There is no cost to register or attend, but registration is required. Register click here:

Registration: Starts January 24 and ends on February 12