Experimental and Numerical Characterization of an Electrically Propelled Vehicles Battery Casing Including Battery Module

This paper demonstrates the possibility to predict a battery system's performance in a fire resistance test according to the new amendment of United Nations Regulation No. 100 Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Vehicles with Regard to Specific Requirements for the Electric Power Train (R100) based on careful measurements of the physical properties of the casing material, as well as modeling of the battery modules and computer simulations. The methodology of the work consists of estimating the heat transfer coefficients by using a gasoline pool fire model in the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software FIRE DYNAMICS SIMULATOR (FDS), followed by finite-element (FE) calculations of the temperatures in the battery