“…It is significantly important to heal the damage before fatigue failure for the engineering application. In the field of material strength, some methods for healing damage of materials have been investigated by some researchers, including conventional heat treatment (Du et al, 2004;Wagner et al, 2008), surface removal (Sharp et al, 2002), high-density electric current pulses (Qiao et al, 2009;Zhou et al, 2004), plasma nitriding (Alsaran et al, 2004), laser surface treatment (Choi1 et al, 2012;Ren et al, 2014;Shang et al, 2013), self-healing repairing for composite materials (White et al, 2001), and so on. These methods can effectively improve the fatigue property of materials.…”