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Online copies of my technical conference presentations and papers

Although the major formal technical papers are published as copyrighted conference proceedings by the ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers), as listed at bottom, there have been other papers presented at conferences which were not published or which were published under dual-copyright terms; and some of the conference presentations also are available on this site as linked here. Listed in chronological order; you might want to go direct to Carousel Spacecraft Electrical Lift Around the Earth Up To GEO

Published paper on technoology of using toroid segments made for use as their own launch fuel tanks. Presented at the 1995 Space Studies Institute conference and publshed by AIAA in conference's proceedings. Wet Launch of Prefab Habitat Modules
Unpublished paper on kinetic supported transportation structures, presented at the 1997 Space Studies Institute conference. KINETIC ENERGY SUPPORTED ELECTRICALLY POWERED TRANSPORTATION STRUCTURES

Co-copyrighted papers on kinetically supported transportation structures, presented at the Space Exploration and Science 2005 conference

Carousel Spacecraft Electrical Lift Around the Earth Up To GEO

Comparison of KESTS to GEO vs. Anchored Tether Space Elevators

Presentations on kinetically supported transportation structures

High quality copies of my papers and presentations (Quicktime .mov format) but may not always be available online

Original effort to put a presentation online, may not work on browser, 2002

Characteristics of Space Escalator Carousels vs. Space Elevators Slides made for presentation at the SES'05 conference, but only partially presented there, due to glitch by re-scheduling by the stand-in session moderator at conference. They are all here, however, and some new info is contained in them, particularly re tethers.

And here are the published, but copyrighted by publisher, papers:

Cline, J.E. David, Treehouse Haven, Meditation Magazine, 1989

Cline, James E. D., Kinetically Strengthened Transportation Structures, Space 2000 Conference Proceedings, ASCE, 2000

Cline, James E. D., Kinetically Supported Bridge Vehicle Lift To GEO, Space 2002 Conference Proceedings, ASCE, 2002, pp. 8-21

Cline, James E. D. Energy Flow in Kinetically Strengthened Transportation Structure Systems to Space., Earth & Space 2004 Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments" Conference Proceedings, ASCE, 2004, pp. 859-866. ISBN 0-7844-0722-3

Note: the definitive work is the above-mentioned 2002 paper, Kinetically Supported Bridge Vehicle Lift To GEO.