“…Formability and the damage resistance of Zn coating strongly depend on its adhesion to a steel substrate [4,5]. Although many methods have been developed for the assessment of adhesion strength of coatings, such as tearing-off [6,7], peelingoff [8], bending [9,10], indentation [11], scratch test [12,13], and shear [14,15], the application of the methods of tearing-off, peeling-off, bending and shear depends on the strength of glue used to bond the coating [6,16]. Another problem about the measured shear strength is that the stress at the interface is not distributed uniformly [14].…”