Many battery systems have complex designs tailored to providing safe and reliable operation in the field. Our significant experience in failure analysis and the evaluation of state-of-the-art system architectures provides us with the necessary insight needed to evaluate a battery designs for safe and reliable operation in the field. Typical battery performance tests include:
- Normal operation characterization
- Temperature cycle testing
- Temperature variation analysis and testing
- Service life testing
- Stress testing performed to evaluate response to a variety of stresses including:
- Electrical
- Electrical overstress/overcharge
- Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
- Electrical over-discharge
- Electrical life cycle testing
- Environmental
- Heating including hot box and flame attack
- Altitude simulation
- High/low humidity
- Mechanical
- Steady force application
- Random and controlled vibration
- Mechanical shock including random and controlled impacts or drops
- Crush and puncture, including nail penetration
- Customized user abuse scenarios
- Vehicle accident scenarios
- UL projectile testing