The generated damages in steel structures due to terrorist attack explosion has attracted structural engineering communities, because the effect of blast loading is extremely sever and destructive. The behavior of Superelastic Nickle Titanium Shape Memory Alloy (NiTi SMA) beam‐column connection was infrequently studied under the effect of blast loading. The present study develops smart steel beam‐column connection under the effect of blast loading. The performance of the proposed connection configuration is evaluated numerically to make better understanding of the conceptual design of NiTi SMA‐based smart bolted connections. NiTi SMA‐based smart connection stiffness and strength is determined based on Eurocode steel joint design procedures. Analytically, Simplified Kingery Airblast Calculations approach is used to generate time history blast reflected overpressure parameters. The austenite effect of NiTi‐SMA is introduced to the global 2D frame model by moment rotation capacity curves. The structural components are verified in Ultimate Limit State (ULS) by using the results of global 2D model. The outputs from the 2D global model is introduced in sub‐numerical models. The sub‐models examined by finite element software code. The result shows that the hysteresis flag‐shaped loop of NiTi‐SMA is well expressed by the sub‐models' numerical solutions. As a result, the proposed connection configuration can highlight the efficiency of NiTi‐SMA in terms of energy dissipation capacity under blast loading successfully.
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