Anil K. Chopra
- Professor of Civil Engineering
- Horace, Dorothy and Katherine Johnson Professor of Engineering: Dynamics of structures; earthquake engineering.

Mailing Address:
Civil and Environmental Engineering
773 Davis Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1710

Email:
chopra@ce.berkeley.edu 		Phone:
(510) 642-1292

Fax:
(510) 643-5264

 

Research

Professor Chopra's research activities have included studies of structural dynamics, various problems in earthquake analysis and design of buildings, dynamic soil-structure interaction, dynamic fluid-structure interaction, and earthquake analysis and design of concrete dams. He has authored more than 325 published papers on this work, a monograph, Earthquake Dynamics of Structures, A Primer, 1981 and 2005; and a textbook, Earthquake Dynamics of Structures: Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering, 1995, 2001, and 2007.

 

Ongoing research projects:

 

Recent Publications

  • A. K. Chopra. “Estimating Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Engineering of Buildings,” Keynote Paper No. 5007, Proceedings, 13th World Conference Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, August 2004.
  • R. K. Goel and A. K. Chopra. “Extension of Modal Pushover Analysis to Compute Member Forces,” Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 125-140, February 2005.
  • R. K. Goel and A. K. Chopra. “Role of Higher-Mode Pushover Analysis in Seismic Analysis of Buildings,” Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 1027-1042, November 2005.
  • S.-W. Han and A. K. Chopra. “Approximate Incremental Dynamic analysis Using the Modal Pushover Analysis Procedure, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 35, Issue 15, pp. 1853-1873, December 2006.
  • A. K. Chopra. “Elastic Response Spectrum: A Historical Note,” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 36, Issue 1, pp. 3-12, January 2007.
  • D. Dreger, G. Hurtado, A. K. Chopra, and S. Larsen, “Near-Fault Seismic Ground Motion Motions,” UCB/EERC-2007-03, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, October 2007, 38 pp.
  • R. K. Goel, and A. K. Chopra, “Estimating Seismic Demands for ‘Ordinary’ Bridges,” UCB/EERC-2008-01, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, January 2008, 97 pp.
  • R. K. Goel and A. K. Chopra, “Role of Shear Keys in Seismic Behavior of Bridges Crossing Fault-Rupture Zones, ASCE, Journal of Bridge Engineering, Vol. 13, pp. 398-408, July/August 2008.
  • H. Bobadilla and A. K. Chopra, “Evaluation of the MPA Procedure for Estimating Seismic Demands: RC-SMRF Buildings, Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 827-845, November 2008.
  • A. K. Chopra and J. Wang, “Analysis and Response of Concrete Arch Dams Including Dam-Water-Foundation Rock Interaction to Spatially-Varying Ground Motions,” UCB/EERC-2008-03, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, December 2008, 127 pp.
  • R. K. Goel and A. K. Chopra, “Linear Analysis of Ordinary Bridges Crossing Fault Rupture Zones,” ASCE, Journal of Bridge Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 203-215, May/June 2009.
  • R. K. Goel and A. K. Chopra, “Nonlinear Analysis of Ordinary Bridges Crossing Fault Rupture Zones,” ASCE, Journal of Bridge Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 216-244, May/June 2009.

 

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