Today the leading position of two scientific thoughts has occupied by reductionism.It believes that any complex structure and phenomenon could be decomposed reduce to a number of elements,which separate each other,and do not change because of explicit influences.People can transpire the nature of holistic phenomena through research on elements.The influences of reductionism scientific thoughts and their limitations on concrete design and process with examples are presented in this paper,which can contrast the necessity of holistic scientific thoughts for application of construction materials as concrete in complicated construction practice.
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