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Catrin Mair Davies is a Professor in Structural Integrity at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London. She leads the High Temperature Centre and has over 90 publications focused on experimental and computational analysis of material behavior under extreme conditions. Her research emphasizes creep deformation, fatigue, additive manufacturing, and fracture mechanics, with industrial applications in nuclear, aerospace, and energy sectors.
Her affiliations include the Additive Manufacturing Network, Mechanics of Materials Division, Robotic Additive Manufacturing Lab, and Structural Integrity Group. She holds an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship (2010–2015) in partnership with EDF Energy and E.ON. Research interests span high-temperature materials, residual stress measurement, and failure analysis in metals like stainless steel, Zircaloy, and Inconel.
Key grants include EPSRC funding for structural integrity projects. She collaborates on advanced manufacturing processes and has pioneered methodologies for creep crack growth monitoring and stress analysis. Her work integrates experimental techniques (e.g., digital image correlation, X-ray diffraction) with computational modeling (finite element analysis) to predict material behavior under multiaxial loading and thermal cycling.
Her articles (2020–2025) explore topics like additive manufacturing material properties, hydride precipitation in zirconium alloys, and fracture toughness of laser-welded components. The most recent studies address high-temperature deformation mechanisms and stress mitigation in 3D-printed alloys.
