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Second-order integration scheme

## Topics

This keyword is related to the topics:

- reliability_methods

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): none

## Description

Second-order integration in local reliability methods modifies the first-order integration approach to apply a curvature correction. This correction is based on the formulation of [ Hoh88 "Hohenbichler and Rackwitz, 1988"].