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The development of methods and tools for the road infrastructure sustainable management is a research challenge, especially for nondestructive testing methods. This letter focuses on the estimation of the thickness of civil engineering structures, like pavements, and more precisely, the time delay and interface roughness. We propose a modified Min-Norm algorithm which allows efficiently estimating the time delay and interface roughness without the eigenvalue decomposition. Therefore, it has a smaller computational load compared with subspace-based methods. The experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.