Claudia Zapata

Assoc Professor

Associate Professor, IAFSE-SEBE: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sustainability Scientist, Sustainability Initiative
Associate Professor, Wireless Information Systems and Computational Architectures (WISCA)
Associate Professor, Sensor, Signal and Information Processing Center (SenSIP)
Assoc Professor, Administration - Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, School of (SEBE)
Associate Professor, Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC)
Associate Professor, Nano-Electronics, Arizona Institute of (AINE)
Associate Professor, Computational Nanoscience, Center for (CCN)
Associate Professor, Photonics Innovation, Center for (CPhI)
Associate Professor, Connection One (C1)
Associate Professor, Biomolecular Integrated Circuits, Center for (CBIC)
Associate Professor, Applied Nanoionics, Center for (CANi)
Associate Professor, Renewable Energy, Arizona Institute for (AIMS)
Associate Professor, QESST ERC Consortium
Associate Professor, Efficient Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation Systems, Center for (EV-STS)

340 Citations
11 h-Index

Personal profile

Education / Academic qualification

PHD, Arizona State University

… → 1999

MS E, Arizona State University

… → 1996

BS, National University of Columbia

… → 1988

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Research Output 2000 2017

340 Citations
11 h-Index
25 Article
21 Conference contribution

Complete research paper: Implementation of an introductory module on biogeotechnics in a freshman engineering course

Larson, J. S., Dalal, M., Savenye, W. C., Zapata, C. E., Hamdan, N. & Kavazanjian, E. Jun 24 2017 In : ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. 2017-June

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Students

Geotechnical engineering

Engineering education

Innovation

Engineers

Effect of wetting and drying cycles on the behavior of compacted expansive soils

Rosnbalm, D. & Zapata, C. E. Jan 1 2017 In : Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. 29, 1, 04016191

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Wetting

Drying

Soils

Swelling

Disasters

Evaluation of the Federal Aviation Administration methodology for characterizing the nonlinear behavior of granular base and subbase materials

Zapata, C. E., Witczak, M. W. & Palanivelu, P. T. 2017 (Accepted/In press) In : Transportation Geotechnics.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

pavement

air traffic

Pavements

Aviation

methodology

3 Citations

A semi-empirical swell prediction model formulated from 'clay mineralogy and unsaturated soil' properties

Puppala, A. J., Pedarla, A., Hoyos, L. R., Zapata, C. & Bheemasetti, T. V. Jan 18 2016 In : Engineering Geology. 200, p. 114-121 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Mineralogy

swell

soil property

Clay

mineralogy

Effect of As-Compacted Moisture Content and Density on Pavement Performance in Different Climatic Regimes

Palanivelu, P. T., Zapata, C. E. & Underwood, S. 2016 Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Congress 2016 - Proceedings of the Joint Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Congress 2016. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), p. 1303-1316 14 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

pavement

Pavements

moisture content

Moisture

Soils