{"id":1061,"date":"2008-07-25T01:37:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T06:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2008-07-26T01:21:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T06:21:55","slug":"the-space-elevator-as-a-slender-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"The Space Elevator as a &#8220;Slender Structure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/MOSS2008Logo.jpg\"  height=\"65\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 65px\" \/>From July 23rd to July 25th, the University of Maryland Baltimore County is holding <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.nene.ac.uk\/~moss2008\/\">&#8216;<em>MOSS2008<\/em>&#8216;<\/a> a Symposium on the Mechanics of Slender Structures.\u00a0 I think a Space Elevator would qualify, in spades, as a &#8216;Slender Structure&#8217; and, to that end, Ben Shelef of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\">Spaceward\u00a0Foundation<\/a> is giving the closing lecture; <em>&#8216;The Story of the Space Elevator&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At the recently concluded <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorconference.org\">2008 Space Elevator Conference<\/a>, there were several discussions about ribbon harmonics; how longitudinal and transverse waves would affect each other on a Space Elevator tether.\u00a0 Dr. Blaise Gassend gave a talk on &#8220;<em>Space Elevator Dynamics through Simple Approximations<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 At MOSS2008, this issue is also being visited in a presentation, &#8220;<em>Analog Equation Method for coupled Axial and and Transverse vibration of Automotive Belts<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the Baltimore County\u00a0area and this is your kind of thing, you might want to stop by.\u00a0 You can find the conference program <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.nene.ac.uk\/~moss2008\/MoSS2008Program.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>26JUL08 Update &#8211; I just received this comment about the conference from Ben Shelef: <em>&#8220;<span lang=\"EN\">This conference is just amazing &#8211; what a find!&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From July 23rd to July 25th, the University of Maryland Baltimore County is holding &#8216;MOSS2008&#8216; a Symposium on the Mechanics of Slender Structures.\u00a0 I think a Space Elevator would qualify, in spades, as a &#8216;Slender Structure&#8217; and, to that end, Ben Shelef of the Spaceward\u00a0Foundation is giving the closing lecture; &#8216;The Story of the Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}