Key wordsCyclic plasticity, constitutive model, cyclic hardening, strain range dependence, plastic strain surface.A resetting scheme is proposed for correctly evaluating the plastic strain range to analyze structural components subjected to regular cyclic loading following pre-loading. In this scheme, a plastic strain surface, referred to as the plastic-strainrange surface in the present paper, is reset to a point and re-evolves every cycle, with its size at the end of the last cycle considered to be the plastic strain range of the current cycle. This resetting scheme provides a definite value for the evolution parameter of the plastic-strain-range surface irrespective of the amounts of cyclic hardening, pre-straining, and ratcheting. The resetting scheme is implemented in a cyclic viscoplastic model in finite element methods, and is applied to analyze a notched bar subjected to cyclic loading at its ends. Furthermore, the validity of the resetting scheme for non-proportional cyclic loading is examined by analyzing the cyclic behavior along elliptic and rhombic strain paths. It is shown that the resetting scheme allows the use of a definite value for the evolution parameter of the plastic-strain-range surface in the presence of any cyclic hardening and/or ratcheting. Moreover, it is shown that the resetting scheme can be valid for cyclic loading with a certain degree of non-proportionality.