Vehicle Battery Fires : Why They Happen and How They Happen

Title: Vehicle Battery Fires : Why They Happen and How They Happen
Author: Greg Barnett
ISBN: 0768081432 / 9780768081435
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 240
Publisher: SAE
Year: 2017
Availability: In Stock

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Battery Fires: Why They Happen and How They Happen was written to assist those interested in this type of incident understand how automotive fires develop, spread and the damage they cause, using both deductive and inductive reasoning.

The main focus of the book resides in looking at differences in failure modes between DC and AC systems, general types of battery and electrical failure modes leading to fire, how to interpret electrical fire, determination of the primary failed part, and other skills the investigating engineer will require to perform technical failure mode analysis.

However, some fires have consumed the evidence to the point where a determination cannot be made with any degree of certainty. In this instance, evidence will be quite limited, and the analysis will have its limitations and should be included in the discussion as such. In some cases, a “cause undetermined” report is all the evidence will support.

Battery Fires: Why They Happen and How They Happen is a unique title which brings together the theory and the practice of correctly evaluating the root causes of unexpected and dangerous automobile fires.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1 : History of the Battery
Chapter 2 : Battery Designs
Chapter 3 : Battery Location Design Issues
Chapter 4 : Direct and Alternating Current
Chapter 5 : Lithium Batteries
Chapter 6 : Nickel-Metal Hydride Battery
Chapter 7 : Automotive Electrical Fire Science
Chapter 8 : Glossary

References
Index