Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) compositehas high specific strength and modulus, which is widely used in aerospace structures to reduce the weight of structures. Due to the poor electrical conductivity, CFRP used in aircraft skin structure is more likely to cause far more damage than metal structure under the action of lightning. The lightning damage research of CFRP mainly focuses on the damage caused by lightning current A wave, especially ignoring the case that the lightning current component C carried a large amount of energy, so the action process and damage range of lightning current on the structure cannot be accurately calculated. Based on the continuous multi-waveform simulation method, this paper conduct a comparative research of simulation and test: The CFRP test specimen of different types of metal copper network are designed and the lightning direct effect test; A multi-physical field damage simulation model of CFRP material under continuous wave (ABC* or DBC*) of lightning current is established and the damage caused by the thermal effect of lightning current is calculated; the ultrasonic C-scan was used to detect the internal damage of the test specimen, and the simulation and test results were compared and analyzed. The results demonstrated that the lightning A and D components dominate the damage range of the test part, and the depth direction damage is mainly related to the C component. The simulation method can effectively evaluate the thermal damage under lightning continuous wave.