Integrated Analysis of EIS, DCIR, and SoH for Degradation Diagnosis and Durability Assessment of NCM811 Lithium-Ion Batteries

Abstract

Accurate battery state estimation is essential for electric-vehicle battery management systems (BMSs), directly improving their safety, durability, and operational reliability. This study proposes an integrated degradation-diagnosis framework that is, to our knowledge, among the first to combine electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), direct-current internal resistance (DCIR), and state of health (SoH) within a single, quantitative, low-complexity analysis of a hybrid-vehicle NCM811 lithium-ion battery module. Cycling-test data measured at 0, 400, 800, and 1200 cycles were reanalyzed using power-law regression, end-of-life (EOL) extrapolation, and cross-metric correlation analysis; the dataset was then extended to 2000 cycles (six checkpoints in total) to test the reliability of long-term lifetime prediction. Three findings are experimentally demonstrated. First, the ohmic resistance remained essentially constant during cycling, whereas the interfacial resistance increased by +422.7%, identifying interfacial (not bulk) resistance growth as the dominant degradation pathway. Second, power-law models substantially outperformed conventional exponential models for RE, DCIR, and SoH (R2 = 0.998, 0.999, and 0.990, respectively, vs. R2 = 0.870 for the exponential SoH model); extending the dataset from four to six checkpoints narrowed the resulting EOL model-form uncertainty from a 3.5-fold to a 1.6-fold discrepancy (2776 vs. 9831 cycles, narrowing to 3124 vs. 4908 cycles). Third, a strong linear relationship between DCIR and SoH (R2 = 0.956) was obtained, indicating that resistance-only monitoring can approximate SoH without full impedance measurement. Beyond these demonstrated results, the proposed framework offers potential value for SoH estimation, battery condition diagnosis, and state-estimation algorithm development in advanced BMSs; these broader applications have not been experimentally validated in this study and are discussed as directions for future work.