Scherf, A.; Li, X.; Stein, F.; Heilmaier, M.: Creep Properties and Microstructure of Binary Fe-Al Alloys with a Fine-Scaled, Lamellar Microstructure. Creep 2015, 13th International Conference on Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Toulouse, France (2015)
Scherf, A.; Li, X.; Stein, F.; Heilmaier, M.: Creep Properties and Microstructure of Binary Fe–Al Alloys with a Fine-Scaled, Lamellar Microstructure. Intermetallics 2015, Educational Center Kloster Banz, Bad Staffelstein, Germany (2015)
Stein, F.: Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformations. Intermetallics 2015 Conference, School on Thermodynamics of Intermetallics, Educational Center Kloster Banz, Staffelstein, Germany (2015)
Li, X.; Stein, F.; Scherf, A.; Janda, D.; Heilmaier, M.: Investigation of Fe–Al Based in situ Composites with Fine Lamellar Eutectoid Microstructure. MRS Fall Meeting 2014
, Boston, MA, USA (2014)
Stein, F.; He, C.: The Usefulness and Applicability of the Alkemade Theorem for the Determination of Ternary Phase Diagrams with Intermetallic Phases. TOFA 2014 – 14th Discussion Meeting on Thermodynamics of Alloys, Brno, Czech Republic (2014)
Stein, F.; Li, X.; Palm, M.; Scherf, A.; Janda, D.; Heilmaier, M.: Fe–Al Alloys with Fine-Scaled, Lamellar Microstructure: A New Candidate for Replacing Steels in High-Temperature Structural Applications? 60th Anniversary Metal Research Colloquium organized by the Department for Metal Research and Materials Testing of the University Leoben, Lech am Arlberg, Austria (2014)
Stein, F.: Stability, Structure and Mechanical Properties of Transition-Metal-Based Laves Phases. Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux, CNRS-Université Paris Est, Paris, France (2013)
Stein, F.: Experiments on the Peritectoid Decomposition Kinetics of the Intermetallic Phase Nb2Co7. 4th Sino-German Symposium on Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics and Its Application to Materials Processing, Bochum, Germany (2013)
Stein, F.; Vogel, S. C.: Structure and Stability of the γ Brass-Type High-Temperature Phases in Al-Rich Fe–Al(–Mo) Alloys. Intermetallics 2013, Bad Staffelstein, Germany (2013)
Vogel, S. C.; Brown, D. W.; Okuniewski, M.; Stebner, A.; Stein, F.: Characterization of Intermetallics with the HIPPO & SMARTS Neutron Beam-Lines at LANSCE. Intermetallics 2013, Educational Center Kloster Banz, Bad Staffelstein, Germany (2013)
He, C.; Stein, F.: Thermodynamic Assessment of the Fe–Nb and Fe–Al–Nb Systems. HTMC XIV, 14th International IUPAC Conference on High Temperature Materials, Beijing, China (2012)
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