Anil K. Chopra

Anil K. Chopra (born February 18, 1941 in Peshawar ) is an Indian-American civil engineer.

Life

Chopra studied civil engineering at Banaras Hindu University with a bachelor's degree in 1960 (where he received the university's gold medal) and at the University of California, Berkeley , with a master's degree in 1963 and a PhD in 1966. He worked for Kaiser Engineers in India and 1961 1966/67 was Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota . From 1969 he was assistant professor and from 1976 professor at Berkeley and from 1991 to 1997 he headed the structural engineering, mechanics and materials department.

He deals with structural dynamics, especially earthquakes and dynamic interactions of buildings with subsoil and water, whereby he dealt particularly with the earthquake behavior of dams and dams. From 1978 he was on the US Committee for Large Dams and Dams. His textbook on structural dynamics has been translated into several languages.

He received the Norman Medal four times and in 1993 the Nathan M. Newmark Medal , the Huber Research Prize of the ASCE and the Raymond C. Reese Research Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1984) and an honorary member of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Bucharest and an honorary professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. In 2016 he received the Berkeley Citation.

Fonts (selection)

• Earthquake Dynamics of Structures, A Primer, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 2nd edition 2005 (first 1981 as Dynamics of Structures, A Primer)
• Dynamics of Structures: Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering, Prentice-Hall / Pearson 1995, 2001, 2007, 2012, 2017

Web links

• Homepage in Berkeley

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004