Part I Keynotes for General Introduction 1.Challenges of high dam construction to computational mechanics 2.The performance of dams during the wenchuan 5-12 earthquake and lessons learned from the event 3.Seismic safety evaluation of high concrete dams Part I: State of the art design and research 4.Seismic safety evaluation of high concrete dams Part II: Earthquake behavior of arch dams: Case study 5.A primary digital dam simulation system for an Arch Dam Part II Dynamic Soil-Structure and Fluid-Structure Interactions 6.A coupling procedure of FE and SBFE for soil-structure interaction in the time domain 7.Time-domain analysis of gravity dam-reservoir interaction using high-order doubly asymptotic open boundary 8.Finite element analysis of dam-reservoir interaction using high-order doubly asymptotic open boundary 9.Analytical solutions for dynamic pressures of coupling fluid-porous medium-solid due to SV wave incidence 10.Modification of equation of motion of fluid-conveying pipe for laminar and turbulent flow profiles Part III Non-linear Earthquake Response of Concrete Dams 11.Influence of seismic input mechanisms and radiation damping on arch dam response 12.Seismic damage-cracking analysis of arch dams using different Earthquake input mechanisms 13.A comparative study of the different procedures for seismic cracking analysis of concrete dams 14.Nonlinear earthquake analysis of high arch dam-water-foundation rock systems 15.Numerical simulation of reinforcement strengthening for high-arch dams to resist strong earthquakes 16.Nonlinear seismic analyses of a high gravity dam with and without the presence of reinforcement 17.Seismic safety of arch dams with aging effects Part IV Topics Related to the Safety Evaluation of Concrete Dams 18.3D mode discrete element method: Elastic Model 19.Comparative study procedure for the safety evaluation of high arch dams 20.Investigation of damping in arch dam-water-foundation rock system of Mauvoisin arch dam 21.Practical procedure for predicting non-uniform temperature on the exposed face of arch dams 22.Experimental and numerical study of the geometrical and hydraulic characteristics of a single rock fracture during shear …… Part V Meso-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Concrete