structural fea code

huangyhg

structural fea code?
does anyone have a suggestion for a commercially available finite element analysis code appropriate for a small engineering operation?  accuracy, speed and ease of use are considerations, as are cost and platform required to run.
i plan to use it for structural analysis, and in particular light aircraft components, both metal and composite.  i would prefer a pc based package.  in the past, i've used ansys and patran (and those are certainly possible) but if there are other worthwhile options i'd like to look at them.
thanks for any help you can offer.
keith
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hi,
for accuracy, speed is the nastran to be used. but for cost consideration, how about una?
cheers