At the Materials and Mechanics Lab in Stony Brook University, we are interested in studying the mechanical and failure behavior of materials. We consider a variety of loading and environmental conditions with the problem space spanning a wide range of length and time scales.

We are interested in a wide range of materials, such as fiber reinforced composites, polymers and their nanocomposites, soft materials, and 3D printed materials. We employ a combination of numerical, experimental and theoretical approaches.

We strive to develop new and improved computational and analytical models, and experimental methods. The ultimate goal is to enable safer, reliable and efficient designs of components and structures in various engineering applications.

RECENT NEWS

• May 15th 2025: Our paper entitled “High speed imaging based measurement of dynamic crack speed in PDMS” (Lead author: Devlin Donnelly) was published in Materials Letters!
• May 2nd 2025: Several graduate students from our group presented at the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Research Poster Symposium
• April 15th 2025: John Li, a rising senior in Mechanical Engineering, has been accepted into the prestigious SUNY Summer Opportunities for Academic Research (SOAR) program, and will be conducting research in our lab this summer!
• March 6th 2025: Prof. Kirane delivered a seminar titled Continuum Damage Modeling of Dynamic Fracture and Crack-Branching: Model Adequacy, Mesh Objectivity and Localization Limiters. This was part of the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Seminar Series at Northwestern University
• Feb 19th 2025: Our paper entitled “Statistical variability in mechanical properties of amorphous silica predicted by molecular dynamics” (Lead author: Ephraim Bryski) was published in the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
• Jan 24th 2025: Our paper entitled “Microplane Constitutive Model for Tension–Compression Asymmetry and Pressure-Sensitive Damage in Polymers” (Lead author: Sanket Wardhekar) was published in the Journal of Applied Mechanics

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