This course is a connection with advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate courses in elasticity and the mechanics of solids. This course present the balance between the theory and the real problems. The theory of elasticity plays three important roles: (1) provides exact solutions (2) provides a check on the limitations of the mechanics of material approach (3) serves as the basis of approximate solutions employing numerical analysis. The term project help students to examine the assumptions made in the class and compare the differences between the exact solutions and numerical solutions.

這門課是銜接大學部材料力學與研究所線性彈性力學，將探討薄圓柱、薄殼與薄板等理論解。
課程將搭配有限元素法，探討理論解與其適用範圍。