“…Among them were 18 references Silbiger, 1960, 1961;Silbiger and DiMaggio, 1961;Shiraishi and DiMaggio, 1962;Gontkevich, 1964;Hwang, 1965;Penzes and Burgin, 1965;Nemergut and Brand, 1965;Hayek and DiMaggio, 1965;Matthews, 1966, 1967;DiMaggio and Rand, 1966;Penzes and Burgin, 1966;Rand and DiMaggio, 1967;Yen and DiMaggio, 1967;Rand, 1968;Penzes, 1969;Hayek, 1970) considering ellipsoidal shells. Some additional investigations of dynamic and static characteristics of ellipsoidal shells have also been uncovered (Hwang, 1964;Bedrosian and DiMaggio, 1972;Berger, 1974;Cambou, 1975;Burroughs and Magrab, 1978;Ross and Johns, 1983;Popov and Chernyshev, 1985;Jones-Oliveira, 1990;Chen and Ginsberg, 1992;Ross, 1996;Al-Jumaily and Najim, 1997;Zhang et al, 1998;Chen, 2001;Qatu, 2002). However, these studies were all based upon thin shell theory, which is mathematically twodimensional (2-D).…”