Egor Popov
Egor Pavlovich Popov (Russian: Егор Павлович Попов; February 6, 1913 – April 19, 2001) was a structural and seismic engineer who helped transform the design of buildings, structures, and civil engineering around earthquake-prone regions.
A relative of inventor Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Egor Popov was born in Kiev, Russian Empire and after moving to the United States of America in 1927, he eventually earned a B.S. from UC Berkeley, his master's degree from MIT and his doctorate degree from Stanford in 1946.[1]
During his career, Popov was primarily famous for his work doing research for the University of California, Berkeley. Some of his accomplishments include: working with buckling problems for NASA in Houston, Texas, involvement with the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, assisting with pipe testing for the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline, developing the Steel Moment Resisting Frame (resistance to earthquake forces), and eccentrically braced frames (ebf's).[2]
Textbooks
[edit]- Introduction to Mechanics of Solids, Prentice Hall, 1968. ISBN 0-13-048776-7
- Mechanics of Materials, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1976. ISBN 0-13-571356-0
- Engineering Mechanics of Solids, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN 0-13-726159-4
References
[edit]- ^ "Obituary". Berkeleyan. 25 April 2001. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ Reitherman, Robert (2012). Earthquakes and Engineers: An International History. Reston, VA: ASCE Press. p. 365. ISBN 9780784410714.
Further reading
[edit]- Egor Popov Connections: The EERI Oral History Series. Oakland, CA: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. 1994. ISBN 0-943198-12-7.
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- 1913 births
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- American civil engineers
- Earthquake engineering
- Soviet emigrants to the United States
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- American people of Russian descent
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- 20th-century American engineers