Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge

General Information

Structure:	Suspension bridge
Function / usage:	Motorway bridge / freeway bridge
Material:	Steel bridge

Location:	Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Crosses:	Bosphorus
Near:	15 Temmuz Şehitler Köprüsü; Birinci Boğaziçi Köprüsü (1973)
Coordinates:	41° 5' 28.05" N 29° 3' 40.77" E

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	main span	1 090 m
	clearance	64.00 m

Initial construction (1986-1988)

Design

Co-contractor

Subcontractor

Anker Schroeder ASDO GmbH (tie rods)

Cable steel supplier

Catwalk

Suspender Inspection (2007)

Inspection services

Monitoring (2008)

Measurement concept / monitoring

Monitoring equipment

ADVITAM

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Brownjohn, J. M. W. / Dumanoglu, A. A. / Severn, R. T. (1992): Ambient vibration survey of the Fatih Sultan Mehmet (second Bosporus) suspension bridge. In: Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, v. 21, n. 10 (October 1992), pp. 907-924.
https://doi.org/10.1002/eqe.4290211005
Apaydın, Nurdan Memişoglu / Bas, Selcuk / Harmandar, Ebru (2016): Response of the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Suspension Bridge under spatially varying multi-point earthquake excitations. In: Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, v. 84 (May 2016), pp. 44-54.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2016.01.018
Dumanoglu, A. A. / Brownjohn, J. M. W. / Severn, R. T. (1992): Seismic Analysis of the Fatih Sultan Mehmet (Second Bosporus) Suspension Bridge. In: Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, v. 21, n. 10 (October 1992), pp. 881-906.
https://doi.org/10.1002/eqe.4290211004
Fernández Troyano, Leonardo (1999): Tierra sobre el agua. Visión histórica universal de los puentes. Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid (Spain), pp. 559.
Picozzi, M. / Milkereit, C. / Zulfikar, C. / Fleming, K. / Ditommaso, R. / Erdik, M. / Zschau, J. / Fischer, J. / Şafak, E. / Özel, O. / Apaydin, N. (2009): Wireless technologies for the monitoring of strategic civil infrastructures: an ambient vibration test on the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Suspension Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey. In: Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, v. 8, n. 3 (April 2009), pp. 671-691.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-009-9132-7