Yep, found some guidance in the FM sheets. Thanks to all. Dewayne -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roland Huggins Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 10:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Exposed Expanded Group A Plastics
slow down. AS others have identified, FM Loss Prevention Data sheets provide guidance for spray sprinklers Roland On Jan 22, 2010, at 8:25 AM, Matt Grise wrote: > I think what the decision tree suggests is that the arrangement of > exposed, expanded, group A plastic on a rack is pretty much guaranteed > to burn up uncontrollably...even with sprinklers. They may want to > look into a different storage arrangement. (solid shelves would put > them into chap 15) > > Also of note is A20.2 (13-2007): > > "Exposed, expanded plastic... ...This test commodity used in the > large-scale sprinklered fire test proved to be the worst challenge..." > > Matt Grisé PE*, LEED AP _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
