“…Generally, it does not seem that the fatigue capacity is reduced, nor is this discussed by the authors (Ye et al, 1996(Ye et al, , 1998Ye and Wang, 2001;Drumond et al, 2021;Miroslav et al, 2017). This might be due to the indentation being so small that the LRS and the notch effect are not large enough to have an effect on the total fatigue life, as is known for small notches in relation to the theory of critical distances (Susmel, 2008;Saleh et al, 2019;De Oliveira Miranda et al, 2019;Navarro et al, 2021). In fact, the theory states that the highest stress at a notch is not necessarily what defines the fatigue capacity, but it is the stress at a certain depth (point method) or, effectively, at an area behind the notch (line method) which governs.…”