Compared with traditional cellular structures, self-assembly structures exhibit significantly higher assembly flexibility, allowing for more scientific and rational protection design in the realm of structural protection. Moreover, self-assembly structure had the potential to mitigate the rapid decrease of load bearing capacity often observed in integral molding due to plastic hinge failure between adjacent cells. Therefore, self-assembly CFRP composites cellular structure was proposed, Quasi-static compression test and finite element simulation were carried out to analyze the deformation modes and energy absorption characteristics. Hexagon (H) structure formed a shear failure band, and re-entrant (R) structure was fully densified with large deflection. The deformation of inclined struts of HR and RH structures were well compatible. The total absorption energy of R structure was max, and H structure was min. The specific energy absorption and mean compression force of two-layer structures were higher, but the increasing number of layers could reduce the peak compression force, RH and R structures showed excellent energy absorption ability.