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To ensure its successful future industrial application, this paper presents a detailed comparison between different strategies to produce mechanical joints by means of the DSSPR process and discusses its performance and feasibility. Results show that the use of flat-bottom holes in both sheets provide interesting results, since they allow for a precise positioning of the tubular rivet in specific pre-defined locations, thus avoiding an incorrect joining procedure. This strategy tightens the tolerances of the process, while keeping a suitable level of destructive performance as demonstrated by the lap shear tests. Pre-riveting of the sheet has also been shown to produce suitable results in combination with or without a flat-bottom hole in the opposite sheet. This strategy comes at a cost of a slightly lower performance than that obtained with flat-bottom holes in both sheets, although the requirements of force and energy to complete the joining process are smaller. 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