The application discloses an automatic excitation hammer for
pile foundation detection by the side-hole transmission wave method and relates to the technical field of
pile foundation detection. The automatic excitation hammer comprises a stratum, a detection cylinder arranged on the stratum, a
pile foundation arranged in the stratum, a building outer wall arranged on the pile foundation, an excitation hammer for hammering the building outer wall to generate vibration
waves of the pile foundation, the excitation hammer and the building outer wall being arranged vertically, and an excitation unit arranged on one side of the excitation hammer, a detection table arranged on the stratum, and an
oscilloscope arranged on the detection table. After correction formula calculation, the pile depth corresponding to the inflection point
vertical coordinate on a time-pile depth broken line graph is the actual pile depth of the detected pile foundation, so that the depth detection of the pile foundation is completed. Meanwhile, the
wave velocity obtained by the straight line slope above and below the inflection point on the time-pile depth broken line graph can also be used to analyze the pile body material and the properties of the soil layer below the pile bottom, respectively.