Egor Popov
Egor Pavlovich Popov (
seismic engineer
who helped transform the design of buildings, structures, and civil engineering around earthquake-prone regions.
A relative of inventor
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
Steel Moment Resisting Frame (resistance to earthquake forces), and eccentrically braced frames (ebf's).[2]
Textbooks
- 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
- ^ "Obituary". Berkeleyan. 25 April 2001. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ISBN 9780784410714.
Further reading
- Egor Popov Connections: The EERI Oral History Series. Oakland, CA: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. 1994. ISBN 0-943198-12-7.
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