According to a brief bio at The Code Project, “Ph. D. Petr Ivankov worked as scientific researcher at Russian Mission Control Centre since 1978 up to 2000. Then he worked as developer and software architect at private companies.”
Dr. Ivankov has posted the code and equations he says will calculate the stress/strain on a hypothetical Space Elevator cable here.
It would be very cool if someone (maybe one of the interns at LiftPort? 🙂 ) looked at this and gave an opinion.
My calculus was never worth writing home about, but I was a programmer for a long time and should be able to download, install and run this thing. Number 17 on my list of projects…