This volume contains papers presented at the annual international conference "actual problems of engineering mechanics" (apem 2019) which was held in 2019 for the sixth time in odessa, ukraine. The conference was organized by the odesa state academy of civil engineering and architecture (ukraine, odesa). G.S. Pisarenko institute for problems of strength of the national academy of sciences of ukraine, odesa i.I. Mechnikov national university (ukraine), university of west attica (greece) and university 玭orth?croatia) were involved as partners. Presented papers will be interesting and useful for the specialists which activity related to the strength of materials and structures, functional coatings, building materials, engineering mechanics.