In the recent decades, CO2 emission reduction request has driven light vehicles development; more recently, the extremely competitive automotive market has forces the European car makers to develop premium class cars instead of low-cost vehicles.
The consequence of these reasons is that a modern car is actually a mix of conventional and non conventional materials; It means, from the join technology point of view, that traditional spot-weld joining is not applicable.
This contribution refers to riveting joining simulation and represents the second phase of a co-design activity where, thanks to the rivet geometrical parameterization, the optimum rivet shape has been identified in order to guarantees the best structures strength and reliability.