I've read in the past that this fell in the not well understood effect category when engineers have desired to model how sprinklers actually work. This seems to be difficult. They say something that ends with but sprinklers installed and maintained to standards have a remarkable record of controlling fires in buildings.
I want to buy one of the square heads. Are the threads square too? Bruce Sent from my Motorola ATRIX™ 4G on AT&T -----Original message----- From: Thomas Watt <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, Apr 24, 2012 13:05:01 GMT+00:00 Subject: Rounding off {Squaring off?} I had a brain-fart and came up with this question for the forum. Especially the engineers. Since sprinklers, in general, throw in a circular pattern, and we calc the sprinklers as squares, there is always overlap so we are by default miscalculating a percentage of the density. Has anyone ever calculated the safety factor effect by ignoring the arcs outside the square??? Thomas A+ fitter/Foreman No work in Orlando, FL area Willing to relocate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20120424/5639c5b1/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20120424/50c0be9e/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
