Evaluation of fatigue strength under cyclic loading is one of the most basic issues for the design of engineering products. Fatigue limit of materials is usually evaluated by the fatigue test using some standard test piece. In addition, evaluation of fatigue limit of real parts of products is demanded nowadays in order to ensure the safety of engineering products from more practical viewpoint. However, fatigue limit evaluation of such real parts by usual testing methods costs too much to conduct in practice. To reduce the cost for fatigue limit evaluation, a newly developed technique utilizing the temperature rise due to energy dissipation under cyclic loading is paid attention recently. In this paper, this technique is applied to fatigue limit evaluation of a real product part made of stainless steel in order to verify its applicability. As a result, it is verified that the fatigue limit predicted by this technique coincides very well with that determined by usual fatigue testing method.
