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Bending properties of nickel electrodes for nickel-hydrogen batteries
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Lerch, Brad A. Corner, Ralph Wilson, Richard M. Keller Sr., Dennis |
| Copyright Year | 1995 |
| Description | Recent changes in manufacturing have resulted in nickel-hydrogen batteries that fail prematurely by electrical shorting, This failure is believed to be a result of a blistering problem in the nickel electrodes. In this study the bending properties of nickel electrodes are investigated in an attempt to correlate the bending properties of the electrode with its propensity to blister. Nickel electrodes from three different batches of material were tested in both the as-received and impregnated forms. The effects of specimen curvature and position within the electrode on the bending strength were studied, and within-electrode and batch-to-batch variations were addressed. Two color-imaging techniques were employed to differentiate between the phases within the electrodes. These techniques aided in distinguishing the relative amounts of nickel hyroxide surface loading on each electrode, thereby relating surface loading to bend strength. Bend strength was found to increase with the amount of surface loading. |
| File Size | 6966863 |
| Page Count | 20 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20150011901 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t8vb32t98 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1995-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Electronics And Electrical Engineering Electrodes Nickel Hydrogen Batteries Metal Surfaces Flexural Strength Imaging Techniques Bending Manufacturing Curvature Failure Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |