Trusting to memory, which may not be the greatest, I recall that many, many years ago IIT Research Institute's Fire Research Group ran a test on an ordinary wood panel door with a single sprinkler discharging at 0.10 density about 5 feet from the face of the door. After an hour of fire exposure, they stopped the test since there was no damage to the door. The chief engineer of that group and a good friend of mine, Tom Waterman, passed away some 10 years ago. I have no idea how to track down that study or their report.
P.S. IIT (Illinois Institute of Technology) had the original FP Engineering program started in 1900 when it was called Armour Institute of Tech (founded by the Armours of Armour Meatpacking in Chicago). It disbanded in 1985 with the last graduating class of 15 Bachelors and 2 Masters. Some of the more renowned FPE's were graduates of that program including Chet Schirmer and Rolf Jensen. Rolf chaired the department for a number of years in the 1960's. Dave David A. de Vries, P.E., CSP Firetech Engineering Incorporated 2715 Harrison St. Evanston, IL 60201 Tel: 847-733-0944 Fax: 847-866-6255 --- On Thu, 11/12/09, Matt Grise <[email protected]> wrote: From: Matt Grise <[email protected]> Subject: non-rated door To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 3:40 PM I have a case where a contractor wants to put a decorative (not fire rated) door into a rated hallway of a non-sprinkled building. I was hoping that there was some code or study that allows for a water curtain to be placed on both sides of the door in order to maintain the fire rating. Has anyone heard of anything like this? Matt Grisé PE*, LEED AP Sales Engineer Alliance Fire Protection *Licensed in KS & MO 913.888.0647 ph 913.888.0618 f 913.927.0222 cell www. AFPsprink.com _______________________________________________ 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)
