<p>1. Mechanism of fatigue in the absence of defects and inclusions<br>2. Stress concentration<br>3. Notch effect and size effect<br>4. Effect of size and geometry of small defects on the fatigue limit<br>5. Effect of hardness H<SUB>v </SUB>on fatigue limits of materials containing defects, and fatigue limit prediction equations<br>6. Effects of nonmetallic inclusions on fatigue strength<br>7. Bearing steels<br>8. Spring steels<br>9. Tool steels: effect of carbides<br>10. Effects of shape and size of artificially introduced alumina particles on 1.5Ni-Cr- Mo (En24) steel<br>11. Nodular cast iron and powder metal<br>12. Influence of Si-phase on fatigue properties of aluminium alloys<br>13. Ti alloys<br>14. Torsional fatigue<br>15. The mechanism of fatigue failure in the very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) life regime of N >10<SUP>7</SUP> cycles<br>16. Effect of surface roughness on fatigue strength<br>17. Martensitic stainless steels<br>18. Additive manufacturing: effects of defects<br>19. Fatigue threshold in Mode II and Mode III, ΔK<SUB>IIth </SUB>and ΔK<SUB>IIIth</SUB>,and small crack problems<br>20. Contact fatigue<br>21. Hydrogen embrittlement<br>22. A new nonmetallic inclusion rating method by the positive use of the hydrogen embrittlement phenomenon<br>23. What is fatigue damage? A viewpoint from the observation of a low-cycle fatigue process<br>24. Quality control of mass production components based on defect analysis<br>Appendix A: Instructions for a New Method of Inclusion Rating and Correlations with the Fatigue Limit<br>Appendix B: Database of Statistics of Extreme Values of Inclusion Size √area<SUB>max<br></SUB>Appendix C: Probability Sheets of Statistics of Extremes<br></p>