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Manufacturers must assure the reliability of their products, what implies guaranteeing optimal working conditions during their service life. In this work, a methodology is proposed to estimate the damage experienced by a component under non-proportional loading to be made aiming at predicting when the component will fail and where the failure location will happen. In the present case, a novel cyclic...