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### Applying temperatures and temperature gradients

Temperatures and temperature gradients applied to 1-D and 2-D elements are transformed into temperatures in the nodes of the expanded elements. To this end the normals and thickness are used to convert the temperature gradients into temperatures in the 3-D elements. This is only needed in mechanical calculations with temperature loading. Indeed, in heat transfer calculations the temperatures are unknown and are not applied. Temperature application to 1-D and 2-D elements is done in subroutine ``gen3dtemp.f''.