“…A growing demand on the structure and infrastructure adapted to an ever-changing social landscape has mainly raised the novelty of engineering materials (Mohammadhassani et al 2013, 2014b, Mansouri et al 2016, Hosseinpour et al 2018, Nasrollahi et al 2018, Sadeghipour Chahnasir et al 2018, Shahnazar et al 2018, Toghroli et al 2018b, Zhao et al 2018a. It also bring solutions to guarantee the optimum exploitation of resources, and foster more sustainable use of assets (Gerami et al 2008, Gholhaki et al 2008, Haddad 2008, Kheyroddin et al 2008, Sharbatdar et al 2008, Andalib et al 2018, Paknahad et al 2018, therefore, majority of studies have been conducted to determine the preference for familiarity or preference for novelty of structures (Ardalan et al 2009, Mohammadhassani et al 2013, 2014a, b, Mola-Abasi et al 2013, Eslami et al 2014, Toghroli et al 2014, Shahabi et al 2016, Toghroli et al 2018a. Accordingly, few studies are on the cold-form beamto-column connections (Mohammadhassani et al 2012, Sohel et al 2012, Talaiekhozani et al 2014, Zhao et al 2014, El Kadi and Kiymaz 2015, Shah et al 2015, Bao et al 2016, Shah et al 2016a, b, c, Bertocci et al 2017, El Kadi et al 2017 Corresponding author, Ph.D., E-mail: BuiTienDieu@gmail.com 2017a,…”