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Three stages of crack growth (slow, accelerating and unstable) are observed, with phenomena such as crack initialisation at concave regions and crack coalescence having a significant contribution to the resulting fatigue crack growth rates.

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Using this modelling framework, non-linear crack propagation behaviour is predicted, leading to the observation of an exponential increase in cracked area with cycle number. In addition, we couple our electrochemo-mechanical formulation with X-ray CT imaging to simulate fatigue cracking of realistic particle microstructures. Here, a multi-physics phase field fatigue model has been developed to study crack propagation in battery electrode particles undergoing hundreds of cycles. However, only the beginning of life has been considered and effects such as damage accumulation have been neglected. Recent phase field fracture studies have investigated particle cracking behaviour. Furthermore, by an assessment of crack growth rates obtained from several numerical simulations by a conventional approach for the description of fatigue crack growth, it is shown that the presented model is able to predict realistic behavior.Įlectrode particle cracking is one of the main phenomena driving battery capacity degradation. The proposed model is able to predict nucleation as well as growth of a fatigue crack. This new contribution is governed by the evolution of fatigue damage, which can be approximated by a linear law, namely the Miner’s rule, for damage accumulation. While in first phase field models the material’s fracture toughness becomes degraded to simulate fatigue crack growth, we present an alternative method within this work, where the driving force for the fatigue mechanism increases due to cyclic loading. However, fracture due to cyclic mechanical fatigue, which is a very important phenomenon regarding a safe, durable and also economical design of structures, is considered only recently in terms of phase field modeling. The framework was so far applied to quasi static and dynamic fracture for brittle as well as for ductile materials with isotropic and also with anisotropic fracture resistance. The field has gained attention properly due to its benefiting features for the numerical simulations even for complex crack problems. Phase field modeling of fracture has been in the focus of research for over a decade now.

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