grainsupported

Grainsupported is a term used to describe a property indicating whether grain-level data or features related to crystalline grains are supported by a dataset, simulation, tool, or format. The term is not standardized and may appear in documentation as a boolean flag, a numeric rating, or an enumerated type.

In materials science, polycrystalline materials consist of grains with distinct crystallographic orientations. In modeling and analysis workflows, grainsupported might indicate that the dataset includes grain-resolved information such as grain IDs, orientations, sizes, and misorientations, enabling grain-scale analyses (for example, grain boundary character distributions or grain growth simulations). When grainsupported is true, software can load, process, and visualize grain-scale data; when false, analyses rely on averaged or bulk properties.

In data formats and APIs, grainsupported can be a capability indicator. A schema could define grainsupported as true/false or as a list of supported grain-related features (IDs, orientations, boundaries). Documentation practitioners advise exposing this flag to improve interoperability and to prevent misinterpretation of the available data.

Limitations: Because "grainsupported" is not a universally standardized term, its precise meaning depends on context. Users should consult the specific tool's or dataset's metadata to understand what grain-level information is included and how it is represented. See also grain, grain boundary, grain orientation, polycrystal, microstructure data.