Frank E. McClure

Frank E. McClure (1924–2004, California Structural Engineer License [SE] 649) was an American consulting structural engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, noted for his contributions to earthquake engineering. He was the University Engineer for the University of California (1976–1978) and the Senior Structural Engineer for the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1978–1991). Beginning with the 1952 Kern County earthquake he traveled to the sites of recent earthquakes investigating earthquake-damaged buildings to understand the behavior of structures under seismic loads. Two of his most influential works were Studies in Seismicity and Earthquake Damage Statistics (1969, with Karl Steinbrugge)