December 1996 Volume 15, Number 2

CONTENTS

• FOREWORD
• FROM THE PRESIDENT
• EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
• Minutes of the Fourth Meeting
• Preparation of the XI-th ECEE
• TASK GROUP ACTIVITIES
• EAEE Working Group on Strong Motion Records and Data Analysis WG2
• TG3 - European Network on Seismic Risk, Vulnerability and Earthquake Scenarios
• Minutes of the Second Meeting of EAEE & ESC Joint Task Group on "Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Microzonation"
• TG8 - European Workshop on the Seismic Behaviour of Asymmetric and Setback Structures
• ISSUES AND VIEWS
• Some Experiences with Application of Philosophy of EC8 in Central Europe Conditions (SK)
• NEWS ABOUT PAST CONFERENCES
• XXV General Assembly of the ESC, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Sixth International Forum on Seismic Zonation : Ibero-Maghrebian Region Conference
• NEWS FROM INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
• System Identification to Monitor Civil Engineering Structures
• European Union Large-Scale Facilities Programme, Access to Large Shaking Tables and Reaction-Wall Facility
• Inco-Copernicus Joint Research Project, "Reliability of Moment Resistant Connections of Steel Building Frames in Seismic Areas"
• NEWS FROM OTHER ORGANISATIONS
• The Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program, Summary Report - Phase I: 1993-95
• NEWS ABOUT UPCOMING CONFERENCES
• Fourth Turkish National Conference on Earthquake Engineering
• FORTHCOMING EVENTS

This issue will be distributed by Istanbul Section of Chamber of Civil Engineers in February 1997