Pushover analysis and Staad Pro v8i

Hi,

At the time of doing pushover analysis using staad pro v8i I need to input following information but I do not know which value I should put for which condition. Can anyone please suggest the procedure I have to go through or the value that need to be put in here?

Your help is highly appreciated.

  1. Type of frame: Moment frame/braced frame (Which one I should choose?. My structure does not have any bracing, so it seemed to me that I should choose moment frame. Need your guidance.)
  2. Displacement tolerance: ___ in (How much and why?)
  3. Number of iterations: ___ (How much and why?)
  4. Number of iterations for KG matrix: ___ (how much and why?)
  5. Displacement incremental value: ___ in (how much and why?)
  6. Base shear incremental value: ___ kip (how much and why?)
  7. Expected yield stress: ___ kip/in2 (how much and from where I can find this, what I should choose?)
  8. Effective length factor for member (Yi): ___ (how much and why?)
  9. Effective length factor for member (Z): ___ (how much and why?)
  10. Mapped spectral acceleration at short period: ___
  11. Mapped spectral acceleration at one-second period: ___