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A leader in the field of structural engineering whose studies were applied to the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the trans-Alaska Pipeline, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and numerous other projects, Popov authored engineering textbooks that became academic classics around the world. He was active in research and lecturing both nationally and internationally up until his death.Many colleagues and former students, some of whom became renowned leaders in their own right, credit Popov with pioneering the study of inelastic behavior and seismic response of reinforced concrete and steel buildings and with providing invaluable encouragement early in their own engineering careers."He was a real giant among us," said professor emeritus Karl S. Pister, former dean of UC Berkeley's College of Engineering and former chancellor of UC Santa Cruz. "I met Egor when I was a graduate student in 1946. His courses and his counsel inspired me to go on for my PhD. When I returned to Cal as a young assistant professor, I co-taught courses with him, and he became my mentor. In short, I really owe my career as an academic to Egor."Popov was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1913. He and his family escaped to Manchuria during the Bolshevik Revolution and eventually sailed to America. After earning his bachelor's degree with honors in UC Berkeley's civil engineering program in 1933, Popov completed a master's degree in the same field at MIT in 1934, and his doctorate in civil engineering and applied mechanics from Stanford University in 1946.After joining the UC Berkeley faculty in 1946, Popov introduced graduate mechanics courses into the civil engineering curriculum and was largely responsible for creating a division of structural engineering and structural mechanics within the civil engineering department. He served as the division's first chair and directed the Structural Engineering Laboratories.Although Popov retired in 1983, since 1996 he has held the title of "Professor in the Graduate School," an honorary title held by a select number of retired UC Berkeley faculty members still active in research on campus. This honor not only is a title, but includes research support. Popov's research had strong theoretical and experimental underpinnings, yet was applied broadly in the professional practice of structural engineering. His early analysis of structural shells led to advances in the design and construction of water storage tanks and airplane hangars. His work helped the National Aeronautics and Space Administration solve buckling problems at its huge environmental chamber in Houston and was instrumental in establishing buckling criteria for the trans-Alaska pipeline.Much of his subsequent research focused on the seismic response of both reinforced concrete and steel structures, which is critical for creating buildings suitable for seismically active regions as well as for the design of offshore oil platforms. Popov and his UC Berkeley colleagues had particular success in recent years with clarifying how to improve the seismic behavior of steel buildings using new ways of connecting beams and columns by welding, high-strength bolts, and diagonal bracing."If we removed Egor Popov's contributions from the seismic design of steel structures, we would lose most innovations of the last 30 years," said UC Berkeley civil engineering professor Filip Filippou, a former student of Popov's who joined the faculty in 1983. "He was a trailblazer, laying out the groundwork that others, many of them his students, followed. His devotion to teaching and to his students is unequalled. One had the sense of belonging to an international family with him, his students, colleagues, and friends."Popov's many awards included election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976, the campus's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1977, the ASCE Normal Medal in 1987, the Berkeley Citation in 1983, a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award from Berkeley in 1985, and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute's Housner Medal in 1999. In 1977, Popov's colleagues, in cooperation with the National Science Foundation, organized a UC Berkeley conference in honor of his 30 years of teaching.Popov authored and co-authored more than 300 technical papers and numerous textbooks, including the landmark textbook "Mechanics of Materials," first published in 1952, with a second edition in 1976. His most recent book was "Engineering Mechanics of Solids," published in 1990. Popov's books have been translated into numerous languages and are used at top engineering schools around the world. Popov will be best remembered for "his tenacity, his brilliance, and his ability to motivate his students," according to Stephen Mahin, another former Popov student, who joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1977. "It's by his example that all his students have carried on the research. He exemplifies the spirit of Berkeley - not only doing great work, but also delivering to the world great students who can continue the tradition of advancing the research."Popov is survived by a brother, Nicholas Popov of Santa Rosa; a daughter, Katherine Crabtree of Medford, Ore.; a son, Alexander Popov of Carbondale, Ill.; and six grandchildren. Memorial services will be held at St. John's Russian Orthodox Church, 1900 Essex, Berkeley. An evening service will be held at the church at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24, and a funeral service is set for 10 a.m. on Wednesday, April 25. For details, call (510) 845-2944. The family prefers donations to the American Heart Association or a charity of choice. ###
Engineering Pioneer Egor Popov UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering Egor Popov passed away after a brief illness, on Thursday, April 19, 2001, at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, California.
Born in Kiev, Russia, in 1913, Popov and his family escaped to Manchuria during the Bolshevik Revolution and eventually made their way to the U.S. His father, Dr. Paul Popov, became a prominent physician in San Francisco.
Professor Popov began his engineering studies at UC Berkeley, and continued with graduate work at Caltech, MIT, and Stanford where he received his Ph.D. He was active in teaching and research for more than 50 years, having first joined UC Berkeleys Department of Civil Engineering in 1946. Within this department he was the first chair of the division of structural engineering and structural mechanics. Many of his former graduate students went on to become distinguished engineers, incuding these who went on to become faculty in PEER: M. S. Agbabian, H. Krawinkler, and F. Filippou.
Popovs seminal engineering textbook, Mechanics of Materials went to a second edition in 1976, and in 1990 he authored Engineering Mechanics of Solids. His engineering expertise was used by NASA to solve buckling problems and played a key role in the structural analysis of the Alaskan pipeline and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Popov pioneered the study of inelastic behavior and the seismic response of reinforced concrete and steel buildings. His research interests covered a wide spectrum of topics in earthquake engineering, including cyclic testing and modeling; the development of the eccentrically braced frame concept; the seismic resistance of steel connections; and the development of friction devices to retrofit existing structures. Popov was a long-time faculty participant of the Earthquake Engineering Research Center and a faculty participant of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center. Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976, he was honored in 1999 with the Earthquake Engineering Research Institutes highest honor, the George W. Housner Medal.
For civil, mechanical, and aeronautical engineering courses. This book is a comprehensive, cross-referenced examination of engineering mechanics of solids. Traditional topics are supplemented by an exposure to several newly-emerging disciplines, such as the probabilistic basis for structural analysis, matrix methods, and plastic limit analysis.
This book is a comprehensive, cross referenced examination ofengineering mechanics of solids. Traditional topics are supplemented by anexposure to several newly emerging disciplines, such as the probabilistic basisfor structural analysis, matrix methods and plastic limit analysis.
The strength of an adhesive contact between two bodies can strongly depend on the macroscopic and microscopic shape of the surfaces. In the past, the influence of roughness has been investigated thoroughly. However, even in the presence of perfectly smooth surfaces, geometry can come into play in form of the macroscopic shape of the contacting region. Here we present numerical and experimental results for contacts of rigid punches with flat but oddly shaped face contacting a soft, adhesive counterpart. When it is carefully pulled off, we find that in contrast to circular shapes, detachment occurs not instantaneously but detachment fronts start at pointed corners and travel inwards, until the final configuration is reached which for macroscopically isotropic shapes is almost circular. For elongated indenters, the final shape resembles the original one with rounded corners. We describe the influence of the shape of the stamp both experimentally and numerically.
Authors acknowledge the asistance of C. Jahnke in conduction of experiments and very useful discussions of adhesion with gradient media with M. He and E. Willert. This work has been conducted under partial financial support from DFG (Grant number PO 810/22-1).
Contributions of authors: R. Pohrt built the experimental setup and processed the experimental data. R. Pohrt and Q. Li executed the numerical simulations. Theoretical analysis was carried our primarily by V. L. Popov. All authors contributed equally to the writing of the manuscript.
Roman POHRT. He is independent researcher at the Berlin University of Technology. He studied physical engineering science with special focus on simulation and optimization of discrete and continuous problems. Since he joined the group of Prof. V. Popov in 2010, he has been conducting experimental and numerical research on a variety of tribology related industry problems. In his PhD thesis R. Pohrt focussed on linking scales in the elastic contact of fractal rough surfaces, for which he was awarded by the German Tribological Society in 2013. R. Pohrt has authored a series of influential papers on different tribological problems, applying and extending state-of-the-art numerical methods. His areas of interest include contact mechanics, rail-wheel-interaction of trains, manufacturing technology, and lubrication and more generally the influence of surface topography on tribological phenomena.
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