Decoupled Heat Transfer - Creep with S8R shell elements in ABAQUS

[Cedararbor]

I have run a decoupled heat transfer-creep with shell elements (S8R - 5 integration pts through thickness). The nodal temperatures are mapped to the same mesh to run the viscous creep problem. All the nodal temperatures (NT11 - NT15) seem correct (and all are above 600 K).
However, the outside surface (sp5) of all the elements did not experience any creep. When the 'TEMP' values of the elements were examined, it was seen that the 'TEMP' values at sp5 of the elements were all zero. Very curious why this is the case. Any thoughts?

Thanks.