1 Introduction -- 2 Automatic Sprinklers: A Brief Overview -- 3 NFPA 13 -- 4 Those Magic Words: Hydraulically Calculated -- 5 A Word About the Math -- 6 A Few Words About the Units of Measurement -- 7 Back at the Lab: What Has Been Going on There? -- 8 The Evolution of the Sprinkler: Choose Your Weapons With Care -- 9 What Are We Calculating? -- 10 Discharge from a Sprinkler -- 11 Elevation Change -- 12 Sprinkler Piping: Nothing is Simple These Days -- 13 Friction Loss of Water Flowing in a Pipe -- 14 Underground Fire Service Mains -- 15 Losses from Fittings and Valves -- 16 Backflow Preventers -- 17 Velocity Pressures -- 18 The Hydraulically Most Remote Area -- 19 Flow Velocity as a Constraint -- 20 Calculating a Dead-End Sprinkler System -- 21 Relating Hydraulic Calculations to the Water Supply -- 22 A Simplified Method for Calculating Pipe Schedule Systems -- 23 Factory Mutual Data Sheet 2-76.

This is the foremost guide to hydraulically designing sprinkler systems for commercial and residential buildings. Sprinkler Hydraulics, Third Edition includes the latest developments in automatic sprinkler design, as well as going beyond the NFPA 13 Standard to explain everything needed to know to professionally design a system. Sprinkler Hydraulics, Third Edition explains flow phenomena to help the reader evaluate calculated sprinkler systems. Starting with a general discussion of the mathematics involved, the discussion proceeds to define sprinkler density, including several examples which explain how to determine discharge areas. • Includes the latest developments in automatic sprinkler design, as well as going beyond the NFPA 13 Standard to explain everything needed to know to professionally design a system; • Starting with a general discussion of the mathematics involved, the discussion proceeds to define sprinkler density, including several examples which explain how to determine discharge areas; • Explains flow phenomena to help the reader evaluate calculated sprinkler systems.