Randy Shurtz

Mechanical Engineer, Fire Science

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Mechanical Engineer, Fire Science

rshurtz@sandia.gov

(505) 284-6540

Biography

Randy has worked in the Fire Sciences and Technology Department at Sandia since 2016. His research interests include advancing understanding and predictive capabilities in areas relevant to fire safety, including thermal testing in fire scenarios and modeling of thermal runaway in lithium ion battery systems. His experience prior to Sandia includes five years in the gas turbine engine industry as well as graduate research in coal pyrolysis and gasification.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 2011
  • B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 2006

Publications

Guannan Shi, Randy Shurtz, Gary Pickrell, Anbo Wang, Yizheng Zhu, (2022). Point-by-point inscribed sapphire parallel fiber Bragg gratings in a fully multimode system for multiplexed high-temperature sensing Optics Letters https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.471370 Publication ID: 80154

Alexander Brown, Randy Shurtz, Lynelle Takahashi, Eric Coker, John Hewson, Michael Hobbs, (2022). Tritium Fires: Simulation and Safety Assessment https://doi.org/10.2172/1862102 Publication ID: 80615

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, (2021). LIM1TR: Lithium-Ion Modeling with 1-D Thermal Runaway (V.1.0) https://doi.org/10.2172/1854741 Publication ID: 76045

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2021). LIM1TR: Lithium-ion Modeling with 1-D Thermal Runaway https://doi.org/10.2172/1892147 Publication ID: 76243

Randy Shurtz, Eric Coker, Alexander Brown, Lynelle Takahashi, (2021). An experimental and modeling study of oxidation of hydrogen isotopes at trace concentrations https://doi.org/10.2172/1897363 Publication ID: 76515

Randy Shurtz, (2021). A Lithium-Ion Battery Thermodynamic Web Calculator for Thermal Runaway Severity Assessments https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1892438 Publication ID: 76263

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, (2021). Battery failure propagation and mitigation: models to understand the problem and sensitivities https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1884900 Publication ID: 75447

Joshua Lamb, Loraine Torres-Castro, John Hewson, Randy Shurtz, Yuliya Preger, (2021). Investigating the Role of Energy Density in Thermal Runaway of Lithium-Ion Batteries with Accelerating Rate Calorimetry Journal of the Electrochemical Society https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ac0699 Publication ID: 78773

John Hewson, Hanwei Zhou, Mukul Parmananda, Randy Shurtz, Partha Mukherjee, (2021). From material properties to multiscale modeling to improve lithium-ion energy storage safety MRS Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-021-00099-z Publication ID: 77969

Randy Shurtz, Alexander Brown, Lynelle Takahashi, Matthew Kesterson, James Laurinat, (2021). A Suite of Thermodynamic and Transport Properties for Computational Simulations with Hydrogen Isotopes https://doi.org/10.2172/1869389 Publication ID: 78519

Joshua Lamb, Randy Shurtz, Loraine Torres-Castro, John Hewson, Yuliya Preger, (2021). Evaluating the impact of energy density on thermal runaway https://doi.org/10.2172/1869553 Publication ID: 78554

Alexander Brown, Randy Shurtz, Lynelle Takahashi, Matthew Kesterson, James Laurinat, (2021). A Computational Scenario Based Assessment of Hydrogen Isotope (3H) Fire Safety https://doi.org/10.2172/1869555 Publication ID: 78556

Randy Shurtz, (2021). Thermal Test Complex (TTC) at Sandia National Laboratories https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1861968 Publication ID: 77908

John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, (2021). Modeling and analysis of battery safety https://doi.org/10.2172/1884102 Publication ID: 78197

Randy Shurtz, Alexander Brown, Lynelle Takahashi, Matthew Kesterson, James Laurinat, (2021). A Suite of Thermodynamic and Transport Properties for Computational Simulations with Hydrogen Isotopes https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1862629 Publication ID: 77946

Alexander Brown, Randy Shurtz, Lynelle Takahashi, Matthew Kesterson, James Laurinat, (2021). A Computational Scenario Based Assessment of Hydrogen Isotope (3H) Fire Safety https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1862643 Publication ID: 77963

Andrew Kurzawski, John Hewson, Randy Shurtz, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, (2021). Battery failure propagation: models to understand the problem and sensitivities https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1844058 Publication ID: 75389

Andrew Kurzawski, Loraine Torres-Castro, Randy Shurtz, Joshua Lamb, John Hewson, (2021). Predicting cell-to-cell failure propagation and limits of propagation in lithium-ion cell stacks Proceedings of the Combustion Institute https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2020.06.270 Publication ID: 74838

Andrew Kurzawski, Loraine Torres-Castro, Randy Shurtz, Joshua Lamb, John Hewson, (2020). Predicting cell-to-cell failure propagation and limits of propagation in lithium-ion cell stacks https://doi.org/10.2172/1835977 Publication ID: 72211

Randy Shurtz, (2020). A Thermodynamic Reassessment of Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode Calorimetry Journal of the Electrochemical Society https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/abc7b4 Publication ID: 71630

Joshua Lamb, Loraine Torres-Castro, Yuliya Preger, John Hewson, Randy Shurtz, Jill Langendorf, (2020). Accelerating Rate Calorimetry of Large Format Cells https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1822287 Publication ID: 70922

Randy Shurtz, Loraine Torres-Castro, Andrew Kurzawski, John Hewson, (2020). Predicting Thermal Responses for Actively Cooled Designs Following Thermal Runaway https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1822289 Publication ID: 70924

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, Loraine Torres-Castro, (2020). Material Science-Based Predictions of Single-Cell Thermal Failures https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1822291 Publication ID: 70926

John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Yuliya Preger, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, (2020). Thermal Analysis to Mitigate Cascading Propagation of Lithium-ion Cell Stacks https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1822652 Publication ID: 70996

John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, (2020). Toward predicting trends in propagating failure and its mitigation for a lithium-ion cell stack https://doi.org/10.2172/1824733 Publication ID: 71104

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2020). High-temperature kinetics of thermal runaway reactions https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1822122 Publication ID: 74986

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2020). Review – Materials Science Predictions of Thermal Runaway in Layered Metal-Oxide Cathodes: A Review of Thermodynamics Journal of the Electrochemical Society https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ab8fd9 Publication ID: 73440

Randy Shurtz, Andrew Kurzawski, John Hewson, Yuliya Preger, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, (2019). Evaluating Safety Characteristics of Lithium-Ion Battery Systems Through Cascading Thermal Runaway Experiments and Modeling https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1643422 Publication ID: 66820

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2019). Modeling Thermal Runaway of NMC(1:1:1) Cathodes in Non-Aqueous Electrolytes https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1643605 Publication ID: 66515

Randy Shurtz, Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, John Hewson, (2019). Modeling Thermal Decomposition of Metal Oxide Cathodes in Non-Aqueous Electrolytes for Prediction of Thermal Runaway in Lithium-Ion Batteries https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1642822 Publication ID: 65629

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, John Hewson, (2019). Predicting limits of cascading failure of thermal runaway in stacks of Li-ion pouch cells https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1642902 Publication ID: 65639

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2019). Heat Release from Thermal Decomposition of Layered Metal Oxide Cathodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1642172 Publication ID: 65039

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Joshua Lamb, Loraine Torres-Castro, John Hewson, (2019). Predicting Limits of Cascading Failure of Thermal Runaway in Stacks of Li-Ion Pouch Cells https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1641959 Publication ID: 64828

John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Yuliya Preger, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, Summer Ferreira, (2019). Predicting and Mitigating Cascading Failure in Stacks of Lithium-Ion Cells https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1668920 Publication ID: 65251

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2019). Heat Release from Thermal Decomposition of Layered Metal Oxide Cathodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1668908 Publication ID: 65257

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, John Hewson, (2019). Predicting and Mitigating Cascading Failure of Thermal Runaway in Stacks of Li-Ion Pouch Cells https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1641889 Publication ID: 64679

John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, (2019). Toward understanding and preventing cascading failure with computer modeling https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1639941 Publication ID: 68398

Randy Shurtz, Andrew Kurzawski, Loraine Torres-Castro, Yuliya Preger, Summer Ferreira, (2019). Approaches and Considerations for Thermal Abuse Studies of Lithium-Ion Batteries https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1645316 Publication ID: 68808

Randy Shurtz, Yuliya Preger, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, John Hewson, Summer Ferreira, (2019). From calorimetry measurements to furthering mechanistic understanding and control of thermal abuse in lithium-ion cells Journal of the Electrochemical Society https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0341912jes Publication ID: 69639

Randy Shurtz, Jeffrey Engerer, John Hewson, (2018). Predicting High-Temperature Decomposition of Lithiated Graphite: Part I. Review of Phenomena and a Comprehensive Model Journal of the Electrochemical Society https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0541816jes Publication ID: 60471

Randy Shurtz, (2018). Total Hemispherical Emissivity of Metals Applicable to Radiant Heat Testing https://doi.org/10.2172/1483461 Publication ID: 60295

John Hewson, Randy Shurtz, Andrew Kurzawski, (2018). Predictive modeling for energy-storage safety in abnormal thermal scenarios https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1569114 Publication ID: 59229

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2018). Physics-Based Models for Thermal Runaway Heating Rates: Advanced Anode Models https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1592297 Publication ID: 59055

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2018). Predicting and Preventing Cascading Thermal Runaway https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1592301 Publication ID: 59059

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2018). Modeling Thermochemical Sources for a Broader Range of Materials and Conditions https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1513356 Publication ID: 62039

Summer Ferreira, Heather Barkholtz, Joshua Lamb, Loraine Torres-Castro, John Hewson, Randy Shurtz, (2018). Battery Failure from a Materials Electrochemical and Thermal Modeling Perspective https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1498232 Publication ID: 60874

John Hewson, Randy Shurtz, (2017). Modeling the limits of thermal runaway in Li-ion packs and designing tests to measure those limits https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1485043 Publication ID: 54533

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2017). Modeling Chemical Heat Sources in Li-Ion Batteries for a Broader Range of Materials and Conditions https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1483128 Publication ID: 54266

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2017). Modeling Cascading Failure of Thermal Runaway in Stacks of Li-Ion Pouch Cells with Variation in Cooling Attributes https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1483127 Publication ID: 54267

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2017). Materials Science-Based Thermochemical Decomposition Model for Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Runaway https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1509790 Publication ID: 53361

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, Joshua Lamb, (2017). Modeling Ignition and Cascading Thermal Runaway Behavior in Lithium-Ion Battery Systems https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1513576 Publication ID: 53376

John Hewson, Randy Shurtz, (2017). Predictive modeling for energy-storage safety in abnormal thermal scenarios https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1478174 Publication ID: 53498

Summer Ferreira, Heather Barkholtz, Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, Babu Chalamala, Joshua Lamb, (2017). Safety R&D in Stationary Storage Systems https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1506209 Publication ID: 56993

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, Randy Shurtz, Randy Shurtz, (2017). Modeling Thermal Runaway in Li-ion Packs as a Function of Scale and Heat Source https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1458135 Publication ID: 56611

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2017). Modeling Thermochemical Sources for a Broader Range of Materials and Conditions https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1458136 Publication ID: 56612

John Hewson, Randy Shurtz, (2017). Modeling for understanding and preventing cascading thermal runaway in battery packs https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1458264 Publication ID: 54977

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2017). Modeling thermal runaway in Lithium-Ion packs as a function of scale and heat source 10th U.S. National Combustion Meeting https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1424870 Publication ID: 55126

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2016). Modeling Thermal Runaway in Li-ion Packs as a Function of Scale and Heat Source https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1414727 Publication ID: 48296

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2016). Modeling Thermochemical Sources for a Broader Range of Materials and Conditions https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1414728 Publication ID: 48297

John Hewson, Randy Shurtz, Summer Ferreira, Joshua Lamb, Christopher Orendorff, Babu Chalamala, (2016). Modeling for understanding and preventing cascading thermal runaway in battery packs https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1408353 Publication ID: 47507

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2016). UNDERSTANDING THE LIMITS OF THERMAL RUNAWAY IN LITHIUM-ION BATTERY SYSTEMS https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1395618 Publication ID: 52391

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2016). UNDERSTANDING THE LIMITS OF THERMAL RUNAWAY IN LITHIUM-ION BATTERY SYSTEMS https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1395619 Publication ID: 52392

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2016). UNDERSTANDING THE LIMITS OF THERMAL RUNAWAY IN LITHIUM-ION BATTERY SYSTEMS https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1375598 Publication ID: 51656

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