“…Recently, by using Fourier-Bessel series, a solution for the postbuckling behaviour of symmetrical-laminated thick spherical cap was obtained by Xu [9]. Other contributions in this area are from Whitney and Sun [10], Alwar and Reddy [11], Ganapathi and Varadan [12], Nath and Jain [13,14], Stein [15] and Librescu [16], Singh et al [17], Archer and Das [18], Dumir et al [19], Chia [20,21] and Sathyamoorthy [22]. However, most of the existing solutions are restricted to simple boundary conditions and to neglecting the effects of transverse shear deformation.…”