In 1995 Davenport joined the University of Manchester. She was Associate Editor of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society between 1995 and 1997.[1] She has carried out several experiments at the Diamond Light Source and is a member of the I18 working group.[1] She was appointed to at the University of Birmingham and looked at the relationship between alloy microstructures and localised corrosion chemistry.[5] She developed X-Ray micro-tomography to study the growth of small cracks, allowing her to understand the transition from pits to cracks in metals.[6] She studies the relationship between microstructure and corrosion in stainless steel, titanium and aluminium.[7] She looked at the impact of grain boundary crystallography on intergranular corrosion.[7]
Davenport uses X-Ray imaging to study corrosion.[8] This information informs life-time prediction models.[8] She works with synchrotron facilities to develop in situ characterisation techniques to understand the mechanisms of corrosion.[9] Davenport leads an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) consortium to develop synchrotron methods to look at nuclear waste storage.[10][4] She has served as an international consultant on nuclear waste storage.[10] She collaborated with Owen Addison on how corrosion impacts biomedical implants.[4][11] Her group monitor the atmospheric corrosion of stainless steel alloys and have found that morphology is very sensitive to relative humidity and residual ferrite.[12][13][14] They identified how bipolar plates corrode in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells.[15]
Awards and honours
In 2003 Davenport won the NACE International H. H. Uhlig Award for outstanding efforts in corrosion education.[16] In 2008 she chaired the Gordon Research Conference in aqueous corrosion.[17] She was made a member of the Innovate UK Advanced Materials Leadership Council and the Government of the United Kingdom expert group on materials science.[18] She was appointed a professor at the University of Birmingham in 2015.[4] In 2016 she delivered the Birmingham Metallurgical Association lecture.[19] She is on the working group of the Collaborative Computational Project in Tomographic Imaging.[20] She is part of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and is involved with their women in materials science activities.[21]
She was the Head of School of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham (2016-2022).
^Davenport, A. J.; Guo, L.; Mi, N.; Mohammed-Ali, H.; Ghahari, M.; Street, S. R.; Laycock, N. J.; Rayment, T.; Reinhard, C. (2014). "Mechanistic studies of atmospheric pitting corrosion of stainless steel for ILW containers". Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology. 49 (6): 514–520. doi:10.1179/1743278214y.0000000183. ISSN1478-422X. S2CID136023665.
