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The yielding of disordered materials is a complex transition involving significant changes of the materials microstructure and dynamics. After yielding, many soft materials recover their quiescent properties over time as they age. There remains, however, a lack of understanding of the nature of this recovery. Here, we elucidate the mechanisms by which fibrillar networks restore their ability to support stress after yielding. Crucially, we observe that the aging response bifurcates around a critical stress $sigma_mathrm{c}$, which is equivalent to the material yield stress. After an initial yielding event, fibrillar networks subsequently yield faster and at lower magnitudes of stress. For stresses $sigma<sigma_mathrm{c}$, the time to yielding increases with waiting time $t_mathrm{w}$ and diverges once the network has restored sufficient entanglement density to support the stress. When $sigma > sigma_mathrm{c}$, the yield time instead plateaus at a finite value because the developed network density is insufficient to support the applied stress. We quantitatively relate the yielding and aging behavior of the network to the competition between stress-induced disentanglement and dynamic fluctuations of the fibrils rebuilding the network. The bifurcation in the material response around $sigma_c$ provides a new possibility to more rigorously localize the yield stress in disordered materials with time-dependent behavior.
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