Abstract: A fretting fatigue test apparatus based on a fatigue testing machine was designed and fabricated to characterize the fretting fatigue damage process. There were three types of contacting pair between the fretting samples and the pads, including titanium alloy TC11 and TC11, single crystal superalloy DD3 and powder metallurgy superalloy FGH95, directionally solidified superalloy DZ125 and FGH95. The fretting fatigue properties of above materials were compared. The results show that fatigue cracks appeared on fretting contact region of three kinds of materials, proving that the experimental apparatus has good performace and stable normal load, and the apparatus is applicable to fretting fatigue experiment. Under the conditions of the same size, load and surface working state, the fretting fatigue life of anisotropic materials DD3 and DZ125 was higher than that of isotropic material TC11.