A major cause of a surface damage of the contact loading machine components (bearings, gears, cams etc.) is the rolling contact fatigue, Various methods of condition monitoring are used to detect damage of these components or specimens in the industry or during testing in laboratories. In the past decades, the acoustic emission technique has been developed into useful condition monitoring method. This paper is focused on the testing of rolling contact fatigue of the metallic materials using acoustic emission method. The methodology of testing, experimenal test-rig and preliminary results, are presented in this paper. It can be concluded, that acoustic emission technique can be applied for more accurate rolling contact fatique evaluation of material. and Obsahuje seznam literatury