Egor Popov
Egor Popov (born February 6, 1913 in Kiev , † April 19, 2001 in Berkeley , California) was an American civil engineer.
After the revolutionary turmoil in Russia, Popov came to the USA with his family via Manchuria and studied civil engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , with a bachelor’s degree, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master’s degree, and he graduated from Stanford in 1946 University PhD. He was a professor at Berkeley, where he headed the structural engineering and structural mechanics department. In 1983 he retired.
He developed procedures in steel construction, for example for earthquake-proof construction (Steel Moment Resisting Frame), examined buckling problems for NASA , was involved in testing pipelines for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
In 1989 he received the Von Karman Medal , in 1981 the Nathan M. Newmark Medal , he received the Berkeley Citation and was a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering .
Fonts
- Introduction to Mechanics of Solids, Prentice-Hall 1968
- Mechanics of Materials, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall 1976
- Engineering Mechanics of Solids, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall 1998
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Popov, Egor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 2001 |
| Place of death | Berkeley, California |