awareness to civil engineering professionals To introduce the construction industry to the new

codes. To motivate other researchers to deal further on such activities.1.4 Scope of the thesisThe scope
of the thesis is limited only on comparison of the two Ethiopian codes (EBCS-4,1995 and EBCS-EN-1994-
1-1, 2013) on composite steel and concrete structures by conducting a detail investigation on Study of
basic concepts and theories for all articles of these two codes so that each and every step of the codes
will be known and described in a clearway.