“…Cheng (1979) presented a method for the solution of 3D elasticity equations, and established a refined theory of plates by using the Lur'e method (Lur'e, 1964). Thereafter, the refined theory is extended to the transversely isotropic plates (Wang, 1990(Wang, , 1991, beam (Gao et al, 2007;Gao and Shang, 2010;Lu et al, 2013) and circular cylinder (Zhao et al, 2011;Zhao and Wu, 2012). The true importance of using the refined theory is in the fact that the high-dimensional theory can be transformed into low-dimensional theory to study by making use of elastic general solution and symbolic operation, and the problem can be simplified further.…”