哈尔滨工业大学复合材料与结构研究所创建于1989年，由杜善义院士等学科前辈牵头组建，是中国最早的两个复合材料学科博士点之一，兼跨力学和材料科学与工程两个一级学科，2017年全国第四轮学科评估中，力学和材料科学与工程两个学科均位列A类，入选国家双一流建设学科。建有“特种环境复合材料技术国家级重点实验室”和“先进复合材料国际联合研究中心”。
研究所长期坚持立足航天，服务国防，建立了具有国际先进水平的研究平台，同时与国内外相关领域的研究机构建立了良好的合作与交流机制，形成了“以人为本/理工结合/学科交叉”的特色和优势。拥有设备资产2.16亿元和使用面积近12000平方米的科研/教学基地。现有教师84 人，其中两院院士3人，教授42人、副教授20人、博导47人，入选国家级人才计划53人次。
近年来，承担了国家级科研项目400余项，年均科研经费约1.5亿元。近5年在《Science》和《Nature》等重要学术期刊及会议上发表学术论文1200余篇，出版专著10余部，拥有授权国家发明专利400余项。
研究成果获得国家自然科学二等奖3项、国家技术发明二等奖5项、国家科技进步二等奖1项、国家教学成果二等奖1项、国防及省部级奖30余项。先后入选了教育部创新团队（2006）、国家“111”创新引智基地（2006）、国家自然科学基金委创新群体（2008-2017，六进九）、国家级科技创新团队（2009，2018）和科技部重点领域创新团队(2013）。是哈尔滨工业大学材料科学与工程、力学两个国家双一流建设重点学科的主要组成部分，是首批“2011协同创新中心”——宇航特种材料研究中心、科技部国家级国际联合研究中心“先进复合材料国际联合中心”（2013）的主要依托单位。曾先后获得“全国专业技术人才先进集体”（2014）、“全国工人先锋号”（2017）、国防科技创新团队奖（2017）和“全国创新争先奖牌”（2017）等荣誉奖励。

Harbin industrial university institute of composite materials and structures, founded in 1989, led by shan-yi du academician disciplines predecessors, is China's earliest one of two composite discipline doctoral degree, and across the level 1 discipline of mechanics and materials science and engineering two, in 2017 the national assessment of the fourth round of the discipline of mechanics and materials science and engineering two disciplines are at the top of A class, It has been selected as a national double-first-class construction discipline. It has "National Key Laboratory of Special Environmental Composite Materials Technology" and "International Joint Research Center of Advanced Composite Materials".
The institute has established an internationally advanced research platform based on aerospace and national defense for a long time. At the same time, it has established a good cooperation and exchange mechanism with domestic and foreign research institutions in related fields, forming the characteristics and advantages of "people-oriented/combination of science and technology/interdisciplinary". With equipment assets of 216 million yuan and use area of nearly 12,000 square meters of scientific research/teaching base. There are 84 faculty members, including 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences, 42 professors, 20 associate professors, 47 doctoral supervisors, 53 of whom have been selected by the National Talent Plan.
In recent years, it has undertaken more than 400 state-level research projects with an annual research fund of about 150 million yuan. In the past five years, he has published more than 1200 academic papers and more than 10 monographs in important academic journals and conferences such as Science and Nature, and has more than 400 authorized national invention patents.
The research achievements have won 3 second prizes of national Natural Science award, 5 second prizes of National technological Invention Award, 1 second prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress Award, 1 second prize of National Teaching Achievement Award and more than 30 national defense and provincial and ministerial awards. It has been selected into the innovation team of the Ministry of Education (2006), the national 111 innovation introduction base (2006), the innovation group of the national natural science foundation of China (2008-2017, sixth grade nine), the national science and technology innovation team (2009,2018) and the innovation team of key fields of the Ministry of Science and Technology (2013). It is a major component of the national double-first-class construction key disciplines of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanics of Harbin Institute of Technology. It is the main supporting unit of the first batch of "2011 Collaborative Innovation Center" -- Aerospace Special Materials Research Center, and the National International Joint Research Center of Advanced Composite Materials (2013) of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has been awarded honorary awards such as "National Advanced Group of Professional and Technical Talents" (2014), "National Worker Pioneer" (2017), National Defense Science and Technology Innovation Team Award (2017) and "National Innovation Medal" (2017).