Abstract: A method of evaluating a vehicle body component design. The method includes: calculating one or more head injury criteria (HIC) ground values for one or more points of interest of a base body component design of a base vehicle; generating an HIC predictive model based on the one or more HIC ground values; obtaining one or more parameter values of one or more points of interest of a candidate body component design, the point(s) of interest of the candidate body component design corresponding to the point(s) of interest of the base body component design of the base vehicle; calculating one or more predicted HIC values for the candidate body component design, wherein the calculation of the predicted HIC value(s) includes inputting the parameter value(s) into the HIC predictive model to obtain the predicted HIC value(s); and evaluating the candidate body component design by inspecting the predicted HIC value(s).