“…umerical or experimental evaluation of plastic dissipation at the tip of fatigue cracks have attracted the attention of several researchers, who investigated, just as few examples, crack propagation assessment criteria [1,2], the thermal effects on stress intensity factors [3,4], the plastic zone size and energy dissipation [5][6][7]. In the field of the experimental approaches, the development of infrared cameras having increased performances (for example in terms of thermal sensitivity, spatial resolution and frame rate) has given impulse to temperature-related fatigue studies.…”