GROUP MEMBERS

Kedar Kirane is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stony Brook University. He has a PhD from Northwestern University, MS from the Ohio State University and BE from University of Pune (College of Engineering Pune). He has also held research and development positions at ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. 

Find out more on Google scholar, Linkedin, ResearchGate or his media expert page

Wanru Miao is a Ph.D. student at the mechanical engineering department. She obtained her Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in Mechanical Engineering and from Michigan State University in Civil Engineering.

Her research mainly concentrates on experimental characterization and modeling of compression driven fracture and size effect in woven composites

John Park is a Ph.D. student at the Mechanical Engineering department. He has completed his Bachelors and Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stony Brook University. He also worked as a mechanical design engineer at U.S. Army CCDC C5ISR Center.

He is currently working on characterization and modeling of shear/compression dominated multiaxial failures and size effects in composites

Racquel Lovelace is a Ph.D. student at the Mechanical Engineering department. She completed her M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of New South Wales and her M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Tyler. She obtained her B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University.

She is currently working on the modeling of failure in composites via semi-discreet approaches

Sajjid Hasan Asif is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

His research focuses on mesh objective constitutive modeling of dynamic fracture in composite materials

Leo is a first year MS student in Mechanical Engineering. His current research focuses on characterizing the compressive failure of woven composites under open-hole compression.

Misha is an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering. His current project involves modeling compression induced delamination using the microplane triad model

Preston is an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering. His current project involves characterization of anisotropy in shear failure of 3D printed parts