Convex combinations of harmonic shears of slit mappings

‎In this paper‎, ‎we study the convex combinations of harmonic mappings obtained by shearing a class of slit conformal mappings‎. ‎Sufficient conditions for the convex combinations of harmonic mappings of this family to be univalent and convex in the horizontal direction are derived‎. ‎Several examples of univalent harmonic mappings constructed by using these methods are presented to illustrate potential applications of the main results.