THERMAL STRESSES IN CHIRAL PLATES D. Ie¸ san 1 and R. Quintanilla 2 1 Department of Mathematics, Al.I. Cuza University and Octav Mayer Institute of Math- ematics (Romanian Academy), Bd. Carol I, nr. 8, 700508 Ia¸ si, Romania 2 Department of Mathematics, ESEIAAT, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Col´ on, 11, 08222 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain Acknowledgments R.Q. is supported by the Project “An´alisis Matem´ atico de las Ecuaciones en Derivada Parciales de la Termomec´ anica“ (MTM2013-42004-P) of the Spanish Ministry of Econ- omy and Competitiveness. At the same time this work is part of the Project “An´alisis Matem´ atico de Problemas de la Termomec´ anica“(MTM2016-74934-P) which is cur- rently submitted to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. 1