Abstract: The proper frequency is experimentally chosen to be the actuator frequency of the electromagnetic acoustic transducer. The instantaneous amplitude, phase and frequency of the detected ultrasonic echoes from a multilayer adhesive sample of steel and rubber materials are calculated and composed to form three-dimensional instantaneous spectrum which is successful to distinguish the testing signals from different adhesive states qualitatively. Then, average instantaneous parameters in sensitive time window are picked up and used as the input eigenvectors for the BP artificial neural network. Identified results in both training and testing volumes demonstrate that the detected electromagnetic ultrasonic interfacial echoes can be identified and classified automatically with the correctness ratio larger than 95%.