Abstract: The aluminum foam elements in different diameter were prepared by advanced powder compact melting method (APCM), which were filled into the aluminum alloy thin-walled tubes with different bonding methods disorderly, and finally the thin-walled tubes filled by APCM aluminum foams in composite structure were obtained (as called the filled tubes). The quasi-static compression test of the filled tubes was carried out by universal testing machine, and the effects of filling element diameter and bonding method on the mechanical properties and energy-absorbing effect of the filled tubes were investigated. The results show that the bonding method has more significant effect on the performance of the filled tubes than that of the filling element diameter. With the same bonding method, the compression energy absorption effect of the filled tubes with filling element diameter of 15 mm is the best. With the different bonding methods, the compression energy absorption effect of the foam bonded filled tubes is the best, while the compression energy absorption effect of the bonded filled tubes is better than that of the non-bonded filled tubes.