Multilayer composites with a layer thickness on a nanometer scale are called nanolaminates [1-3] and have good prospects for application as both structural and functional materials possessing special mechani cal, magnetic, and electrical properties due to unique combinations of characteristics of the component lay ers, in particular, metals. This stimulates investigations of various characteristics of nanolaminates, including the structural parameters, thermal stability, ultimate strength, flow stress, microhardness, etc. [4]. The elasto plastic properties of these multilayer compos ites with nanodimensional layers have been studied to a much lesser extent.In this work, acoustic measurements were used to determine the elasto plastic characteristics of q nano laminate of the Cu-Nb system, including the charac teristics of elastic deformation (Young's modulus E) and reversible microplastic deformation (amplitude independent decrement δ and microplastic flow stress σ) related to the oscillatory motion of dislocations. A special feature of the acoustic experiment is that, at moderate amplitudes, the dislocation structure of samples is retained and the density of dislocations in the metal remains unchanged [5].The samples were studied by a resonant method of a composite vibrator, which is described in much detail elsewhere [5]. Using this technique, it is possible to determine the Young's modulus E and study the absorption of ultrasound (i.e., internal friction) and inelastic (microplastic) properties of samples. The data on inelastic properties are obtained by measuring the E and δ values in a wide range of amplitudes of vibrational strain ε. At sufficiently large ε, a sample material exhibits nonlinear amplitude dependent absorption δ h = δ -δ i and amplitude dependent shift of the Young's modulus, which is defined as (ΔE/E) h = (E -E i )/E i , where E i and δ i are the Young's modulus and decrement determined at small amplitudes (for which both E and Δ are independent of ε).Using the results of acoustic measurements per formed in a wide range of vibration amplitudes, it also possible to evaluate the mechanical (microplastic) characteristics of materials in the conventional mechanical testing coordinates of stress versus inelas tic strain, where the ordinate represents the amplitude of vibrational stress σ = Eε and the abscissa represents the nonlinear inelastic strain ε d = ε(ΔE/E) h .The samples for acoustic measurements were rod shaped with a 2 × 0.5 mm rectangular cross section and a length of l = 20 mm, which corresponded to reso nance frequency longitudinal oscillations close to f 1 00 kHz. The Young's modulus was defined as E = 4ρl 2 f 2 , where ρ is the material density.The Cu-Nb nanolaminate was obtained by com plex rolling of copper and niobium sheets and repre sented a sandwich of these metals, in which the thick ness of each layer (see Fig. 1) was about 10 nm. The boundaries of these layers were oriented in the direc tion of propagation of a longitudinal acoustic wave. The effective density of the nanola...