Egor P. Popov was a structural and seismic engineer who helped to transform the design of buildings, structures, and civil engineering marvels around earthquake-prone regions. Popov was born in Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

, Ukraine

Ukraine

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, and after moving to America in 1927, he eventually earned a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley, his masters degree from MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 and his doctorate degree from Stanford

Stanford University

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 in 1946.

Life's work

During his career, Popov was primarily famous for his work doing research for the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. Some of his accomplishments include: working with buckling problems for NASA

NASA

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 in Houston, Texas, involvement with the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, assisting with pipe testing for the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline, developing steel moment-resisting frames (resistance to earthquake forces

Earthquake engineering

Earthquake engineering is the scientific field concerned with protecting society, the natural and the man-made environment from earthquakes by limiting the seismic risk to socio-economically acceptable levels...

), and eccentrically braced frames (ebf's).

Textbooks

• Introduction to Mechanics of Solids, Prentice Hall, 1968. ISBN 0130487767
• Mechanics of Materials, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1976. ISBN 0135713560
• Engineering Mechanics of Solids, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN 0137261594