Welcome to the WD Ortlepp memorial DVD

Dave Ortlepp will be fondly remembered by all. He never missed an ISSI seminar and we at ISSI are especially grateful for all we learnt from him. Dave was always ready to share his knowledge and we think it is appropriate to make as much as possible of his work readily available - with this DVD as well as through a special page on the ISSI web site.

We thank Rosemary who kindly offered all his old files with photographs and negatives plus the master copy of his book.

1) A digital copy of Dave's book "ROCK FRACTURE AND ROCKBURSTS - an illustrated study", reproduced here with the permission of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM)

2) Dave's pictures: scanned copies of all of Dave's photographs that we collected from Rosemary

3) Copies of some of Dave's publications - mostly courtesy of SAIMM - thanks Nazli

4) Chapter 4 and Chapter 12 of "Rock Mechanics in Mining Practice" Ed. S Budavari of which Dave was the author

* Article in the SA Financial Gazette 1964