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The extraordinary combination of strength and toughness attained by nature's highly sophisticated structural design in nacre has inspired the synthesis of novel layered nanomaterials. In the present work, numerical and analytical models are applied on the nanometer scale to attain a better insight and understanding concerning the mechanical behavior of bio-inspired layered materials. The material is composed of the oxide TiO 2 and organic polyelectrolyte (PE) layers. The efforts focus on applying continuum mechanics in nanoscale numerical models to the layered TiO 2 /PE system, obtained by a chemical bath deposition (CBD) procedure at low temperatures. Based on previous experimental investigations, Finite-Element (FE) simulations of the mechanical behavior of the layered ceramic and organic phases (TiO 2 -PE) are performed. The elastic-plastic properties of titania and organic polyelectrolyte phases are determined via FE

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