Patent ID: 8079130

Claim:
A method for assembling sheets by riveting, comprising: determining information on a local stiffness of the sheets at a level of a hole to be pierced, following said determining, piercing said hole through said sheets, wherein piercing the hole comprises: providing an advance speed instruction of a piercing tool and a rotation speed instruction of the piercing tool; following said piercing the hole, placing a rivet in the pierced hole; and wherein said advance speed instruction and said rotation speed instruction of the piercing tool both being a function of said information on the local stiffness of the sheets, wherein said step for determining information on the local stiffness of the sheets at the level of said hole to be pierced is performed by carrying out a clamping operation aimed at sinking a sheet press system into the sheets at the level of said hole to be pierced, and wherein the sheet press system being intended to have the piercing tool pass through the sheets during the subsequent to piercing the hole.