A methodology for phenomenological analysis of cumulative damage processes. Application to fatigue and fracture phenomena

• The evolution of damage phenomena is identified as stochastic sample functions. • The methodology implies normalization and identification of sample functions as CDFs. • Application to fracture and fatigue cases confirms the validity of the methodology. • The complete cumulative damage process is reconstructed from only a partial record. Sample functions, i.e., stochastic process realizations, are used to define cumulative damage phenomena...