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This article reports that in ceramic multilayered composites, consisting of layers of different composition, residual stresses are generated by different sintering strain rate between layers and thermal expansion mismatch between the layers during cooling down from sintering temperature. In Al2O3/Al2O3+3Y-TZP multilayered composites, layers with the lower thermal expansion coefficient (CTE), that is Al2O3, undergo compressive residual stress while tensile stress appears in Al2O3+3Y-TZP (AZ) layers with higher CTE. This stress field directly affects the mechanical properties of the composites and it is responsible for cracking and/or delamination. In addition, spontaneous cracking upon cooling is sometime observed as a result of different sintering strain rate and excessive mismatch in CTE between layers.