High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Mindlin-Reissner theory of plates is an extension of Kirchhoff–Love plate theory that takes into account shear deformations through-the-thickness of a plate. The theory was proposed in 1951 by Raymond Mindlin . A similar, but not identical, theory had been proposed earlier by Eric Reissner in 1945 . Both theories are intended for thick plates in which the normal to the mid-surface remains straight but not necessarily perpendicular to the mid-surface. The Mindlin-Reissner theory is used to calculate the deformations and stresses in a plate whose thickness is of the order of one tenth the planar dimensions while the Kirchhoff-Love theory is applicable to thinner plates.