The first step of a low cycle fatigue life calculation consists in determining the stress and strain histories at critical points. To avoid time-consuming complete nite element computations, local elasto-plastic corrections may be used to evaluate those histories in a very short time. Existing approaches are not accurate enough, thus a new method inspired from homogenisation models is proposed. It was implemented in the ZeBuLoN FE code, and validated through multiaxial non proportional random loadings, which is not the case for any existing method. The obtained histories are used as an input for fatigue life calculation methods. A new cycle counting algorithm was also implemented to extract cycles from a multiaxial random loading sequence. ...