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Table 3 Data on sprinkler piping reliability

From: A review of sprinkler system effectiveness studies

Description

Source

Unit

Minimum

Mean

Maximum

Pipe array

(Ronty and Keski-Rahkonen 2004)

failures/year

2.4 × 10 -6

3.3 × 10 -6

4.3 × 10 -6

Gasket failure

(Budnick 2001)

failures/hour

5.00 × 10 -7

4.00 × 10 -6

1.20 × 10 -5