Filamentous semiflexible networks define the mechanical and physical properties of many materials such as cytoskeleton. In the absence of a distinct unit-cell, Mikado fiber network model is the most commonly used algorithm for representing the microstructure of these networks in numerical models. Nevertheless, certain types of filamentous structures such as collagenous tissues, at early stages of their development, are assembled by growth of individual fibers from random nucleation sites. In this work, we develop a computational model to investigate the mechanical response of such networks by characterizing their nonaffine behavior. We show that that the deformation of these networks is nonaffine at all length scales. Furthermore, similar to Mikado networks, the degree of nonaffinity in these structures decreases with increasing the probing length scale, the network fiber density, and/or the flexibility of constituting filaments. Nevertheless, despite the lower coordination number of these networks, their deformation field is more affine than that of the Mikado networks with the same fiber density and fiber mechanical properties.
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