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Kedar Kirane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University specializing in solid mechanics, damage, fracture, and fatigue of heterogeneous materials.
His educational background includes:
- PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University (2014)
- MS in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University (2008)
- BE in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pune, College of Engineering Pune (2004)
Prof. Kirane's research focuses on computational and analytical modeling of damage mechanisms in quasi-brittle materials like composites, concrete, and bio-inspired systems, combined with novel experimental techniques. His work integrates multi-scale approaches to address scaling challenges and enable safer engineering designs across aerospace, civil, and biomedical applications.
His 2025 publications reveal strong emphasis on dynamic fracture characterization in polymers, statistical mechanics of amorphous materials, and advanced constitutive modeling for pressure-sensitive polymers. These works demonstrate his lab's signature integration of high-speed imaging, molecular dynamics, and computational mechanics to solve complex material failure problems.
Prof. Kirane actively mentors graduate researchers including Thomas Piccolo (MS), Devlin Donnelly, Ephraim Bryski, and Sanket Wardhekar, with recent thesis work and publications spanning hernia treatment modeling, PDMS fracture dynamics, and polymer constitutive theory.
He directs the Materials and Mechanics Lab which investigates failure behavior across diverse materials systems using numerical, experimental, and theoretical methods to develop next-generation modeling tools for engineering applications.
