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information regarding state-of-the-art software and techniques available for the analysis of dams’ behavior. For the community of Dam Engineers, a possibility is given to discuss on assumptions, results and conclusions drawn by the help of numerical analyses. The Benchmarks are organized by members of the ICOLD “Technical Committee on Computational Aspects of Dam Analysis and Design”. During a period now of 29 years the working group is active in discussing computational aspects and concluding the major results in Bulletins. However, the effort is based on the activities of their members, Vice-Chair and especially their Chair as these are from the beginning: Olgierd Zienkiewics, Michele Fanelli, Gabriella Giuseppetti, Alian Carrere, Ignacio Escuder and the current chair Guido Mazza. The results and outcome of benchmarks workshops result in working group discussions; their work is being published in Bulletins ([1],[2],[3]). These Bulletins aims to offer a support to dam engineers to choose the most suitable computational strategies to cope with the engineering problems under examination in the best possible way having in mind potentialities and possible shortcomings. REFERENCES [1] ICOLD - Bulletin 94 (1994): “Computer Software for Dams. Validation”. [2] ICOLD - Bulletin 122 (2001): “Computational Procedures for Dam Engineering”. [3] ICOLD - Bulletin 155 (2013): “Guidelines for use of Numerical Models in Dam Engineering”. 6