Polycyclic fatigue is an aspect of the mechanical behavior of materials, which is particularly insidious due to its progressive and masked nature. Although significant progress has been made since the first works on fatigue in the 19th century, the fatigue resistance of industrial parts under service conditions remains a major current problem. Indeed, even if exact numbers are not available, it is expected that at least half of all mechanical failures are due to fatigue. The relative cost of these failures constitutes approximately 4% of the gross national product of the US. For this reason, it is essential to understand the physics of fatigue, in order to create a cause and effect relationship in an effort to reduce the probability of such failures. However, the development of predictive models for fatigue remains difficult, for at least three reasons: 1. The fatigue properties of materials depend on a large number of parameters such as the nature of the loading, the microstructure of the material, the environment, the manufacturing process... 2. The HCF fatigue life durations of materials and engineering parts are scattered. 3. The times for characterizing the fatigue properties, in a given configuration and using conventional methods, are prohibitive. The SELF-HEATING project therefore relates to the rapid characterization and prediction of the high cycle fatigue properties of materials from a new experimental methods based on thermometric measurements coupled with modeling. Metallic and composite materials will be studied in the proposed project. The main challenge is to propose robust and rapid characterization method of the fatigue properties of materials in order to better design the mechanical parts that use them. Thus the SELF-HEATING project is in relation with strong societal challenges such as reducing energy costs through the lightening of structures, reducing the risk of failure of mechanical systems, development of decision support tools for preventive maintenance... The ANR industrial chair project SELF-HEATING is based on a common need expressed by two internationally renowned French industrial groups, Safran and Naval Group, and brings together the skills of the IRDL (UMR CNRS 6027) concerning the rapid characterization of fatigue properties materials and structures from self-heating tests under cyclic loading and those of the Pprime institute (UPR CNRS 3346) in the field of HCF and VHCF fatigue of materials. The ANR industrial chair intends to amplify and perpetuate the numerous collaborations between the two industrial groups and these two research institutes. This consortium was set up to deal with all the issues of the ANR industrial chair SELF-HEATING in order to not only propose a new approach that breaks with current practices in the fatigue community, to train specialists in these methods who tomorrow will diffuse them, but also, to introduce, in the environment of industrial partners, new procedures for characterizing the fatigue properties of materials. Finally, before the end of the project, we plan to initiate a standardization process. The person proposed to be the chair holder, Sylvain Calloch, is a professor at ENSTA Bretagne since 2004 and a researcher at the Institut de Recherche Dupuy de Lôme (IRDL, UMR CNRS 6027). He is an experienced scientist in the field of mechanics of materials with strong connection with industry. Expert in fatigue of materials and structures, he has been working for twenty years with his team on the rapid characterization of HCF fatigue properties of materials using self-heating method. The other involved researchers complete the large competency spectrum needed to achieve that ambitious project. Fundamental works (experimental and numerical developments, theoretical tools) will help solving efficiently and originally the industrial issues treated in the works in direct connection with industrial concerns.