This paper reports the interdisciplinary approach of simultaneous use of a
stereological method, namely the five parameter analysis (FPA) method and
the grain boundary character distribution (GBCD) in cemented carbides. There
are six major aspects: i) the background and motivations of the
interdisciplinary approach, ii) the principle of the FPA method, iii)
orientation texture of boundary planes with specific misorientations via
?(?g, n) mode in cemented carbide, iv) orientation texture of habit planes
regardless of misorientations via ?(n) mode in cemented carbide, v)
application of the FPA method to serial cemented carbide samples and vi)
boundary sort methods before using the FPA method. The work aims at
presenting beneficial reference for studying structural and distribution
features of special coincidence site lattice (CSL) boundaries in a
statistical manner, and in turn increasing the knowledge about the
structure-property relationship in cemented carbides.