Manikandan Annadurai
2 Articles0 Comments

Manikandan Annadurai is a Reaction-to-Fire Testing Engineer with Dubai Civil Defense’s Emirates Safety Laboratory. Manikandan is a Chemist and has 18+ years of various industrial experience including Fire Testing, specializing in designing and conducting comprehensive fire tests to evaluate the performance of materials under different conditions.

Role of fire-resistant cables in critical firefighting systems: a comprehensive review

Understanding life-safety and firefighting ‘wiring systems’ is essential, and several countries have now upgraded the testing of fire-resistant cables and wiring systems to adopt and harmonise with a more realistic standard time temperature curve. The logic behind this is that…

Fire performance testing on electric cables/wires

Electrical wiring is part of fire-protection systems; therefore, this must work reliably for a given period when under fire conditions. Defective or faulty cables are one of the leading causes of fire.  Fires often initiate in unsafe and nonstandard conditions,…