Quantification of Shear Strain Development in the Through-Thickness Direction During Sliding Wear

Quantifying strain in a deformation mechanism like wear can be critical to enhancing knowledge on structure–property correlation, especially for systems that show strain-induced phase transformations. In this particular work, a systematic analytical scheme has been adopted to quantify the extent of shear strain present in the subsurface region of such a system. This simple procedure of quantifying shear strain can be very useful in developing theories on the stability of austenite.