Study on complexity of Sutong Bridge's objectives system and its meta-synthesis management

Objectives define the boundaries of complex engineering system.It is a hard work to identify the specific objectives of a complex engineering system.The objectives system development needs a complicated process,from nix to prototype,and to final definition.The total process will cover the following course:from chaos to well-ordered;from qualitativeness to combination of quantitativeness and qualitativenss,then from qualitativeness to quantitativeness(a recurrent process),expert experience and theoretical science,rationality and sensibility,synthesis analysis and meta-synthesis,routinization and non-routinization.Such process is explicit in phase development yet overlapped;mutually confined yet mutually independent;permeated conflicts yet pregnant in harmony.This article explores the complexity of Sutong Bridge's objectives development and the process of meta-synthesis in the Sutong Bridge engineering.