The invention provides a method for estimating an impedance of a material
behind a casing wall, wherein the casing is disposed in a borehole
drilled in a geological formation, and wherein a borehole fluid is
filling said casing, the material being disposed in an annulus between
said casing and said geological formation, said method using a logging
tool positionable inside the casing and said method comprising: exciting
a first acoustic wave in said casing by insonifying said casing with a
first pulse, the first acoustic wave having a first mode that may be one
of flexural mode or extensional mode; receiving one or more echoes from
said first acoustic wave, and producing a first signal; extracting from
said first signal a first equation with two acoustic properties unknowns
for respectively said material and said borehole fluid; exciting a second
acoustic wave in said casing by insonifying said casing with a second
pulse, the second acoustic wave having a thickness mode; receiving one or
more echoes from said second acoustic wave, and producing a second
signal; extracting from said second signal a second equation with said
two acoustic properties unknowns; extracting the acoustic properties of
said material behind the casing wall from said first and said second
equations.