Bolt setting method of a nail-shaped bolt as well as a setting device with an electronic control unit for implementing the bolt setting method

A bolt setting method of a nail-shaped bolt with a head and a shaft extending from there, ending in a tapered manner into at least one component, preferably into a stack of at least two components arranged upon each other, out of metal and/or plastic material, with which the bolt is set into the at least one component nearly rotation-free with a straight-lined setting movement with at least two steps, wherein the bolt setting method includes the following steps:

• a. joining the bolt into the component with a deforming stroke during which the bolt reaches a first joining speed of ≤4 m/s and the shaft completely penetrates the at least one component with a portion of a maximum diameter with respect to a shaft length, without a bottom side of the head abutting the at least one component, in particular a component facing the head, and
• b. after the deforming stroke, driving the bolt into the component until a head abutment of the bottom side of the head on the at least one component, in particular the component facing the head, by at least one friction stroke with which a frictional connection between the shaft and the at least one component is overcome and with which the bolt reaches a second joining speed that is smaller than the first joining speed.